Back in February, the Brooklyn Museum collaborated with other leading museums on an inventive month-long initiative called Wikipedia Loves Art. This project sought to illustrate Wikipedia articles through a free, online photo contest. Each of the sixteen participating museums created a scavenger hunt list of subjects for visitors to photograph. Participants added their images to the popular photo sharing website Flickr.com.

This sounds like a great project! I would love to hear what participants thought about it. I imagine a similar project could fit in nicely with our current photography exhibition A Yemeni Community: Photographs from the 1970s by Milton Rogovin. If this sounds like something you might be interested in, then please let us know!

Point your browser to the Wikipedia Loves Art Flickr group to see photographs from the project.

Read reflections on the project at the Brooklyn Museum's blog: Pre-competition, Competition, Almost Done, The Stats.

Labels: social media, visitor participation