Albright-Knox Art Gallery

The Albright Knox Art Gallery will complete the third and final phase of a long-range initiative to develop, maintain, and make publicly accessible a comprehensive, accurate, and searchable database of the gallery's collections. The goal of phase three is to build an online search tool to easily retrieve images, object details, and in-depth contextual information such as provenance, curatorial texts, and detailed descriptions. The "search the collection" tool will provide museum staff, scholars, students, and the general public with unified access to the gallery's resources online, making it possible to more effectively share information to further education, scholarship, and research worldwide. Quantitative and qualitative measures of success will analyze the effectiveness of the new search function, with the goal of enabling users to tell deeper, more compelling, and relevant stories about works of art.