Citation of museum collections
This page collects URL schemes for directly linking to records in museum collections.
Museums
American Numismatic Society
http://numismatics.org/collection/1944.100.24110, where 1944.100.24110 is the accession number.
Brooklyn Museum
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/search/?accession_number=16.580.233&type=object
and
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/10044
both link to the same object.
British Museum
http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/search_object_details.aspx?objectid=117631&partid=1. Not yet sure if "&partid=1" is always necessary.
Getty Museum, Los Angeles and Malibu
Is there a collection database online?
Harvard Art Museums
http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collection/detail.dot?id=1977.216.3192, where 1977.216.3192 is the accession number.
Hermitage, Saint Petersburg
Search form at http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/fcgi-bin/db2www/browse.mac/category?selLang=English but no short URLs for individual objects.
Hunterian Museum, Glasgow
http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/foxweb/huntsearch/DetailedResults.fwx?collection=all&SearchTerm=D.192, where 'D.192' looks like the accession number (though that isn't explicitly stated anywhere on the page).
Louvre, Paris
http://cartelen.louvre.fr/cartelen/visite?srv=car_not_frame&idNotice=2776&langue=en is a link to an individual object. It does not seem to be a permanent link into the collection database of the institution.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
There is a database search form at http://www.metmuseum.org/search/woa_advanced_search.asp but it does not seem to support individually addressable catalog entries via a URL.
Münzkabinett der Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
http://www.smb.museum/ikmk/object.php?objectNR=4, where '4' looks like a record id.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
http://mfa.org/collections/search_art.asp?coll_accession=63.2644, where 63.2644 is the accession number.
Yale Art Gallery, New Haven
http://ecatalogue.art.yale.edu/detail.htm?objectId=95360, where 95360 is the object id, not the accession number.