ALMA is online

The new Boijmans Van Beuningen website ALMA is online. ALMA (Afbeelding Linkt Met Artefact – Picture links with artefact) is an online database and couples utensils from the pre-industrial period (1400-1900) with depictions of the same objects in paintings and prints from the era in question.

Making this connection provides the museum, as well as the public and researchers, with information about aspects such as the use of the utensils or their significance in a painting. The documentation system was established in 1989 by Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen’s then curator of applied arts, Alma Ruempol. More than 2,500 objects, 1,500 prints and 300 paintings were digitised.