💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🏛️🧩 A college student built "Provenance," a free online #game using the Met’s open access collection. Players match #artifact fragments to their known origins, learning how curators trace objects back to specific sites or cultures.
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Can You Guess the Origins of Papyrus Fragments or Painted Ceramics? A College Student Turned the Met's Open-Access Database Into an Online Game
If you consider yourself an art history buff, test your smarts with Anthropeum. The game pulls ten images from the Met's open-access archive and challenges players to identify each artifact's time and place of originMichele Debczak (Smithsonian Magazine)