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National Museum Warsaw and Partage Plus project awarded with the Sybilla 2015 prize

The National Museum Warsaw (MNW) received the Polish Sybilla 2015 award in the category "Best Digitisation Project" for the participation in the Partage Plus project. The international project kicked off in March 2012 with the aim of digitizing and 3D scanning more than 79.000 art works from the Art Nouveau period. All items were made available via the Euopeana platform and can be accessed under the following link. The Partage Plus team, composed of 25 partner institutions from all over Europe, feels immensely honoured by this award and thanks the organizers of Sybilla 2015 for this mention.

Art Nouveau and Art Deco Biennial Event 2013

The Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage, Brussels (KIK-IRPA) is going to take part in the Art Nouveau and Art Deco antiques fair organized during the Biennale Art nouveau-Art Déco in October.
The 2013 Biennial Event will put special emphasis on the buildings of architect Henry van de Velde, to celebrate the 150th anniversary of his birth. One of the leading lights of Art Nouveau, alongside Victor Horta and Paul Hankar, Henry van de Velde had a huge influence on the Modernist movement and twentieth-century design.

Click HERE to learn more about the Art Nouveau and Art Deco Biennial Event 2013.