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Virtual Collection of Masterpieces

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Commercial
  
no

Current status
  
version 3.0

Launched
  
13 September 2007

Type of site
  
search platform to a collection of Asian masterpieces

Owner
  
National Museum of Ethnology, Rijksmuseum Volkenkunde, Leiden (The Netherlands)

Website
  
Virtual Collection of Asian Masterpieces

The Virtual Collection of Asian Masterpieces (VCM) shares 2,200 Masterpieces of Asian culture online. Since its launch in 2007 more than 120 museums in Asia and Europe have joined the VCM.

The VCM is originally a project of the ASEMUS - the Asia-Europe Museums Network. The VCM is now led by a consortium of five Asian and European museums:

  • Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, Ireland
  • National Museum of Ethnology (Rijksmuseum Volkenkunde), Leiden, The Netherlands
  • Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • National Museum of Korea, Seoul, South Korea
  • Museum of World Culture, Gothenburg, Sweden

    • References

    Virtual Collection of Masterpieces Wikipedia
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