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Best Museum Professional's Site

This website was honored the award “Best Museum Professional's Site” by Museums and the Web in 2003 and again in 2009.

Concept and maintenance

This website is provided and maintained by CODART, the international council for curators of Dutch and Flemish art. More about CODART

CODART
P.O. Box 90418
NL-2509 LK The Hague
The Netherlands
T +31 70 333 9744
F +31 70 333 9749
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The website is the product of the joint effort of the following individuals and institutions:

 

Supporters

The day-to-day work on this website is made possible with the financial support of:

  • CODART members who have made a voluntary contribution
  • Friends of CODART
  • Netherlands Ministry for Education Culture and Science
  • Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs

The 2007-2008 website renewal project was funded by grants from:

Mondriaan Foundation

Prince Bernhard Cultural Foundation

Dioraphte foundation

Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Friends of CODART

 

 

Sources of information

All information on museums, curators, exhibitions, other museum events and publications on this website has been provided by museums or individuals affiliated to CODART or was gathered by CODART from open sources on the Internet or on paper provided by museum publicity departments, government websites, press and local tourist bureaus.

Images

All images of works of art on this website have been delivered to CODART by the museums keeping these objects or gathered from museum websites and museum press dossiers.

History of this website

This website was initiated on 24 September 1998 as “The CODART list”. It was designed in Microsoft FrontPage and maintained by Gary Schwartz, founding director of the international network for curators of Dutch and Flemish art. From the start, the website offered overviews by country of all museums with significant collections of Dutch and Flemish art with links to their webpages, their curators and their exhibitions from 1 January 1999 onwards. On 1 November 2000 a commercial site map and search window were installed. In the first years of existence, the content management system consisted of nothing more than tables with all text typed in cell by cell.

A major change was introduced on 20 December 2002. After more than a year of preparation, a completely renewed version of the site was launched. In its new form, the site combined the high graphic design quality of the  Rotterdam (nowadays The Hague) bureau Typography, Interiority and Other Serious Matters (TIOSM) with the specialized technical abilities of the Amsterdam website bureau Occhio Group. The new content management system was a professional database that offered visitors the possibility to sort the information in various ways. The backend provided iproved editing facilities for the webmaster.

On 22 January 2003 the website changed hosts. We moved from Intermax in Rotterdam, which had serviced the site reliably and courteously for four-and-a-half years, to Occhio Group in Amsterdam, the designer of the revised site.

In February 2003 a complimentary notification service was instituted, offering subscribers free e-mails announcing the opening and closing dates of exhibitions ten days in advance. This service gains three or four new subscribers every week, and is highly appreciated.

At the end of March 2003 www.codart.nl was honored with the award “Best Museum Professional's Site 2003” by Museums and the Web.

On 13 March 2007, during its congress in Paris, CODART launched a new design for its home page as the first step in a revamping of the website. The navigation bar is now located on a horizontal line at the top of the page rather than in a column on the left. The CODART map of the world has been replaced by a dynamic graphic feature - a work of art featured in a current exhibition. At each visit to the site, a new example from the current store of images is displayed.

In the spring of 2007, CODART applied for and received grants from four important Dutch funding agencies for an expansion and remodelling of the website. CODART has improved the look-and-feel and the usability of the website, edited and expanded its content and adding new features.