About this website
What does the CODART website offer?
This website is primarily a portal to Internet resources on Dutch and Flemish art in museums. It provides easily navigable rubrics on:
- Museums with significant collections of Dutch and Flemish art.
- Exhibitions and other events (symposia, congresses, etc.).
- Curators of Dutch and Flemish art.
- News items concerning Dutch and Flemish art.
- Information on CODART congresses and study trips: their programs, attendees and network of institutions and persons involved, texts of lectures and reports on workshops.
- All issues of the bi-annual CODART Courant.
- The CODART curator’s bookshelf, a basic bibliography for Dutch and Flemish art.
- The CODART curator’s research guide to facilities on Internet and on the ground.
- Illustrated checklists or catalogues of a number of museum collections.
I know a museum or exhibition of Dutch and Flemish art that is not on the list. How can I have it added?
Send an e-mail to the .
How can I have a news item published on this website?
Send an e-mail to the .
Who designed the website? Who does the technique?
Until 20 December 2002 design and technique were in the hands of the then webmaster, Gary Schwartz. On that day the site saw a spectacular revamping, with a new design by the graphic design bureau Typography, Interiority and Other Serious Matters, then in Rotterdam and now in The Hague, and new technique provided by Occhio in Amsterdam. Typography, Interiority and Other Serious Matters (TIOSM) and Occhio are still CODART’s partners in maintaining and improving the site. In cooperation with Occhio and TIOSM, CODART realized another expansion and remodelling of the website in 2007-2009. In the framework of this project, CODART has improved the look-and-feel and the usability of the website, edited and expanded its content and added new features. This project was co-financed by the Mondrian Foundation, the Prince Bernhard Cultural Foundation, Dioraphte Foundation, the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Friends of CODART Foundation.
How is the website rated?
In November 2000 www.codart.nl reached the number one slot in Google searches for “Dutch art” and “Flemish art.” Since then it has maintained high positions in these searches. The Google rating for the site is usually 6/10, on a par with the best websites of leading cultural institutions. 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. In 2009, as the result of the renewal of the whole website, the site was honored with the same award again. Since then visits to the site have been rising steadily. In March 2007 a high point was reached with nearly 3000 unique visits a day.