Tang Museum collection
tang.skidmore.edu/collectionPublishing platform integrating the Tang Museum’s collection.
- Digital platform centered on community, pedagogy, and access
- First integration of the Tang’s collection with Embark, bringing the full collection online
- Rotating diptych highlighting the collection’s visual richness
- Inclusive storytelling through essays, interviews, and creative responses
- Discovery tools and filters that surface connections across artworks
- Linked content tying objects to exhibitions, curriculum, publications, and public programs
- Design and development of a new collection platform within the existing Tang website
- Integration with Embark collection management software
- Content modeling and systems for essays, interviews, and multimedia stories
- UX and interaction design for non-linear exploration and discovery
- Technical architecture connecting objects to exhibitions, programs, and publications
- Editorial and visual systems supporting long-form scholarship and community narratives
A new addition to the Tang Museum website offers access to more than 1,100 high-resolution images of artwork. These works are also organized in “collections,” groupings of works by artist, theme, or a specific Skidmore class.
Even as the project covers the breadth of the Tang’s permanent collection, and for the first time integrates the website with the Tang’s Embark collection management software, the project is also a component of the museum’s ambitious cross-disciplinary initiative, Accelerate: Access and Inclusion at the Tang Teaching Museum. Visitors can explore stories about the artworks through new scholarship by faculty, staff, students, and guests; creative responses to the collection through music, dance, and new visual art; and video interviews with artists.
These stories draw on the Tang’s deep permanent collection, leading to a truly rich way to explore art and narrative online. They are often also linked to exhibitions and public programming from the initiative, and writing for the Accelerate annual printed magazine which we also designed. A highly integrated and coherent combination of technical work, design in multiple media, public programming, community inclusion, and scholarship leads to a social and cultural project that is greater than the sum of its parts.
A Hausa hat from the Tang’s permanent collection
Artist Sonya Clark’s response to two objects from the Tang’s collection
Wendy Red Star’s Fall [from Four Seasons], 2006, from the Tang’s permanent collection
Collection search results, drawing on the Embark system and other sources, are integrated with site search results, and also have their own perspective.
