Let's reclaim the open web, God damn it. Writing from somewhere in Copenhagen, Denmark. Working on digital tools for museum guests at National Gallery of Denmark (i.e. @smk). 🚐 Moved to this fine instance in June 2026 #denmark #openglam #openweb
Jonas Heide Smith
@jonassmith@mstdn.dk
mstdn.dk
We were actually at the Royal Cast Collection to shoot photos of a battered plaster cast Jesus (more on which later). But I also checked in on various other heroes, kings, deities and mythical creatures – they seemed well! 🙌
#dkmuseum #sculpture #mythology #Centaur #photography
SMK – Statens Museum for Kunst
@smk@expressional.social
Vi taler om den store, fælles danske kunstsamling og om museet i København og i Thy. Og vi håber meget, at du vil tale med os! #smkmuseum #dkart #dkmuseum #kunstmuseum #copenhagen SMK is the national gallery of Denmark. We post in Danish but happily (try to) respond in other languages.
expressional.social
I 1668 havde danskerne travlt med ikke at komme på den forkerte side af den særdeles enevældige Frederik den 3 👑
I mellemtiden, i Rotterdam, var den hollandske guldalder godt i gang, og 34-årige Jacob Octhervelt (1634 – 1682) havde travlt med at male en ung violinspillende kvinde.
Maleriet blev indkøbt til Kunstkammeret (som senere blev til SMK) i 1760, året hvor vi i øvrigt herhjemme havde travlt med at afholde en langstrakt jubelfest for at fejre enevældens 100 års jubilæum 🎉
📷 Maleriet har netop været forbi museets fotograf og resultatet er ét stk billedfil i opløsningen 5968x7130px. Da maleriet er i public domain, er fotoet det også automatisk 🔓
🖼️ I SMK Open: https://open.smk.dk/artwork/image/KMSsp557 I Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20278129
#dkmuseum #JacobOcthervelt #artmuseum
Jonas Heide Smith
@jonassmith@theforkiverse.com
Let's reclaim the open web, God damn it. Writing from somewhere in Copenhagen, Denmark. Working on digital tools for museum guests at National Gallery of Denmark (i.e. @smk). #denmark #openglam #openweb
theforkiverse.com
Does AI use mean less web traffic for museums?
There are many ways to approach this, but here I've mapped the ratio of web visits at smk.dk to physical museum visits. If guests get info elsewhere, this ratio should change (i.e. fewer web visits per physical visit). I'm pretty sure that must be happening but currently the effect isn't strong enough to be clearly visible. We'll follow these numbers closely 🔎
#musetech #museums #glam #smkmuseum #dkmuseum
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