The British portrait gallery laid out their archives network
National Portrait Gallery British laid out in its online archive. It contains a gallery own documents and materials gathered by it for more than 150 years of its existence.
As it turned out, the archive, first generally available, the general public is interested not so much a detailed documented history of the richest collection of portraits of how the various incidents with the gallery and took place about a hundred years ago. Thus, the newspaper The Independent has paid particular attention to the murder that happened in one of the halls of the gallery in 1909: some old man after a lively dispute shot his wife and then shot himself. The Guardian said the new data about the trick of suffragette Ann Hunt in 1914: she sliced a huge butcher knife portrait of the historian Thomas Carlyle Brush John Everett Millais in protest against the detention of its fellow member.
In the archives of the gallery were discovered documents containing new details about how she worked during the world wars. During World War I part of the collection was stored in one of London Underground, and guarded her staff the gallery, received weapons. During the Second World gallery building was empty, and all the portraits were stored in Mentmor estate in Buckinghamshire, where many of the paintings have suffered from rats.
The publication of the archives on the Internet has become in recent years, one of the priorities of many British museums and libraries. For example, the National Library in late January, laid out in the network a rich collection of archival materials, creating a one-line guide to British history.
Website:http://archivecatalogue.npg.org.uk/P...qCmd=Index.tcl