What Museum Collections are Upcoming on the HAR Website?
What museum collections are upcoming on the HAR website? Well, there isn't a straight forward answer to this question because the HAR website very rarely has the complete Himalayan and Tibetan art collection of any museum. Images are being added to the existing Museums on the website all the time as the images become available. Many museums just simply don't have everything photographed or don't want to show images of what they consider to be poor quality art in their collections. The better the museum the less willing to share everything - especially if it is a fine art museum.
The HAR Team has provided a Museums Progress Outline Page listing the museums that are currently being worked on as of February 2010. Some of the museums are already represented on HAR and others are new. The museums already represented have new images waiting to be added to their online HAR galleries and the images from new museums are being catalogued for inclusion on HAR for the first time (meaning catalogued by the HAR Team).
Private collections are not represented on this Museums Progress Outline Page although the private collections make up for a large percentage of the images in the database. A separate 'progress page' will be created for private collections as well as collections of mural images from Tibet and Nepal. Currently there is a backlog of approximately 10,000 images, much of it art in situ, to go up on the HAR website.