Citation of museum collections

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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.