Visit: The National Gallery of Denmark
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SMK on Sølvgade in Copenhagen is an excellent setting for the Danes' art collection. But not all Danes have easy access to the physical museum and when you visit the building - and if you see all the exhibited works - you have only experienced approx. 0.7% of the entire collection.
Therefore, there is a huge potential in digitizing and making the museum's collection accessible. With support from the Nordea Foundation , we are working in the SMK Open project (2016-2021) to make the entire Danish art collection available for free use. Everyone must have the opportunity to pave their very own way into the world of art and draw information from SMK's large collection of knowledge and material. With SMK Open, the collections are opened in digital form as a giant toolbox full of freely usable building blocks.