The Smithsonian now lets you see 40,000 pieces of art online
 

The Smithsonian vowed that it would open up its digital collection by early 2015, and it's clearly not wasting time as it delivers on that promise. Both the instutition's Freer and Sackler galleries have posted over 40,000 pieces of global art online...

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