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Help us map IWM’s First World War art collection
We need your help! Imperial War Museums have been sharing hundreds of artworks from their vast First World War collection, ranging from aerial paintings of Mesopotamian landscapes to chalk drawings of...
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Crowdsourcing the Home Front at Yorkshire Museum
Taking cover in a Tube Station during a London air raid, Walter Bayes, 1918 Are you interested in the Home Front during the First World War? Imperial War Museums has a collection of fantastic artworks...
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#ArtMap Live in York
Wednesday saw the first of our Putting Art on the Map live events. A brilliant team of students and art enthusiasts, curators and history buffs joined Historypin, Imperial War Museums’ and the...
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#ArtMap in Edinburgh
Yesterday #ArtMap hit the road and went to Edinburgh where the Scottish National Portrait Gallery hosted us for a live crowdsourcing event. We had a packed house in the beautiful Farmer Education...
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Putting Art on the Map: Boats, Planes and…The Royal Mail
Boats, Planes and the War time communications – these are the themes for our next three Putting Art on the Map live events. We are asking the public to help us explore and enrich the Imperial War...
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Putting Art on the Map at the British Postal Museum and Archive
Monday 10 February 2014 saw Historypin and the Putting Art on the Map team down at the British Postal Museum and Archive at Mount Pleasant in London. The theme of the event was Postal communications...
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Upcoming events: William Orpen and Maritime Heritage
Well if he did, he would have loved our next two Putting Art on the Map events: Crowdsourcing the Maritime History of the First World War at Chatham Historic Dockyard and Crowdsourcing Orpen’s First...
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Putting Art on the Map gets competitive
Deep focus as everyone strives to be the lead mystery-solver On 26th February 2014 Putting Art on the Map got competitive, setting a group of UCL Digital Humanities the task of solving as many...
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Reflections on Putting Art on the Map
Over the last year we have been running Putting Art on the Map in partnership with the Imperial War Museum. With funding from the Nesta R&D Digital Innovation Fund we were able to test if...
View ArticleMethods and tips for running live crowdsourcing events
As part of Putting Art on the Map, we ran a series of live crowd-sourcing events. The basic format of these events was to identify a group of artworks around a particular theme, partner with another...
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