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A new database opened by the Louvre Museum, which allows the public to have free access through the Internet to all the works in its collections, both presented and not exhibited, and annotations have been placed on three-quarters of them.
The president and director of the museum, Jean-Luc Martinez, explained that they have been preparing for this step for years, considering that facilitating access to the museum’s contents to the common public and specialized researchers is a fundamental task for officials.
The new site so far includes more than 482,000 photographic records, which is equivalent to around 75⁒ of the collections owned by the Louvre, and the platform also includes the Delacroix Museum, which is affiliated with the Louvre, the sculptures of the Tuileries Palace and Germany’s restored works of art from the end of World War II, which were entrusted to the Louvre, are waiting to be returned to their owners.
Things were not limited to this platform, as the work starts with a new and more accessible website, and takes a completely different approach than traditional sites, as it focuses on visual content and the site is available in French. , English, Spanish and Chinese. , with a heavy emphasis on images and video, and the site designers focused on tools New Internet roaming, as directed, primarily for practical use on a tablet or smartphone, as studies have shown that 60% of searches on the site are carried out through these means. The new site is designed for all audiences, from schoolchildren to foreign tourists.
In 2020, there was a significant increase in the number of visits to the Louvre website, which amounted to 21 million, while the museum strengthened its presence on social media, reaching ten million followers.
This is in regards to culture, but the crisis of proliferation and access to the public and customers, especially during the quarantine periods, affected practically all food products, and this is what the monks suffered at the Monastery of Seto in southeastern France, where they produce cheeses of the “Roblochon” type that the monastery has been producing for some time. Around a century ago, and it is considered one of the most popular types, but the epidemic has caused a decrease in sales to about 50% due to the closure of restaurants, as we said, and a decrease in the visits of customers to the stores
In the cellars of the monastery during the period of the epidemic, four thousand bars of cheese were accumulated, in addition to the usual stock, and the surplus reached almost three tons, among the nineteen monks who lived in silence and devoted their time to prayer. and labor.
The important thing is that the monastery officials decided to launch an Internet challenge represented in selling a ton of cheese in a few days, but in a few hours they managed to sell more than two tons of cheese.
