Art Museum Image Consortium
www.amico.org
Enabling Educational Use of Museum Multimedia
AMICO Press Release
For Immediate Release: April 14, 2002
The Art Museum Image Consortium Welcomes New Members
The Louisiana State Museum, The Newark Museum,
the Terra Museum of American Art and the Victoria & Albert Museum join AMICO
The Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) welcomes four new members to
our growing collaboration. The Newark Museum, the Louisiana State
Museum, Terra Museum of American Art, and the Victoria & Albert
Museum join thirty--two other museums in an unprecedented
collaboration to enable educational use of museum multimedia.
Together AMICO's Members are building The AMICO Library, an on-line
multi-media resource documenting works of art in their collections.
"AMICO draws its strength from the diversity of its Members" says
Elizabeth Broun, Director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and
AMICO's Chair. "This exceptional group of new members will further
develop The AMICO Library and enhance our collaboration."
Mark Jones, the Director of the Victoria & Albert Museum remarked,
"The V&A is committed to making its collections available and useful
to as many people as possible. We are glad to collaborate with our
partners in AMICO in creating common access to the wonderful objects
that these museums contain."
James F. Sefcik, Assistant Secretary, Office of State Museums,
Department of Culture, Recreation & Tourism, and Director, Louisiana
State Museum, concurred "the opportunity to share the resources of
the group with others is remarkable. I look forward to the time -
and it gets closer every day - when students worldwide will be able
to share the collective wealth of the Louisiana State Museum and our
sister institutions for their own work and information.
AMICO Members are working together to ensure that teachers and
students, researchers and museum professionals world-wide can easily
access and use museum multimedia documentation. The 2002 release of
The AMICO Library will document approximately 100,000 works of art
from our Members collections. This exceptional compilation is a
valuable resource in teaching across the Arts and Humanities
curriculum. Subscribing institutions around the world are making
creative use of previously inaccessible or difficult to find images,
text documentation, multimedia and sound files, including those from
selected Antenna Audio tours.
Membership in AMICO is open to institutions with a collection of art,
willing to contribute to The AMICO Library. Please contact Jennifer
Trant, AMICO's Executive Director at [log in to unmask] for further
information.
About AMICO
The Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) is a growing, independent
non-profit (501c3) corporation. Founded in 1997, the Consortium
today is made up of over 35 major museums in the United States,
Canada, and the United Kingdom. It's an innovative collaboration -
not seen before in museums - that shares, shapes, and standardizes
digital information regarding museum collections and enables its
educational use. Membership is open to any institution with a
collection of art.
Together AMICO Members build The AMICO LibraryTM a compilation of
multimedia documentation of works in their collections. The 2002
edition of The AMICO Library documents approximately 100,000
different works of art, from prehistoric goddess figures to
contemporary installations; new works are added annually. More than
simply an image database, AMICO Library works are fully documented
and may include curatorial text, detailed provenance information,
multiple views, and other related multimedia. Subscribers find The
AMICO Library valuable because it combines the immediacy and
accessibility of the Web with the persistence and academic weight of
traditional library reference sources.
The AMICO Library is accessible over secure networks to licensed
subscribers such as universities, colleges, libraries, schools, and
museums. Over 3 million users on four continents include faculty,
students, teachers, staff, researchers, and public library patrons.
Educational subscribers receive access to The AMICO Library through
one of our Distributors. A subscription to The AMICO Library provides
rights to use works for a broad range of educational purposes.
Potential subscribers may preview a Thumbnail Catalog of The AMICO
Library, request a free trial from our Distributors, and get further
information at http://www.amico.org.
Contact Information
Jennifer Trant
Executive Director
Art Museum Image Consortium
Phone: +1 412 422 8533
Email: [log in to unmask]
Web: http://www.amico.org
AMICO Members
Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Art Gallery of Ontario
The Art Institute of Chicago
Asia Society Gallery
Center for Creative Photography
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Dallas Museum of Art
Davis Museum & Cultural Center, Wellesley College
Denver Art Museum
The Detroit Institute of Arts
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
The Frick Collection and Art Reference Library
George Eastman House
J. Paul Getty Museum
The Library of Congress
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Louisiana State Museum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
National Gallery of Canada
National Museums of Scotland
The Newark Museum
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Philadelphia Museum of Art
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Terra Museum of American Art
Victoria & Albert Museum
Walker Art Center
The Walters Art Museum
Whitney Museum of American Art
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J. Trant 2008 Murray Ave, Suite D
Executive Director Pittsburgh, PA 15217 USA
Art Museum Image Consortium
http://www.amico.org Phone: +1 412 422 8533
[log in to unmask] Fax: +1 412 422 8594
AMICO - Enabling Educational Use of Museum Multimedia
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