Dallas Museum of Art gets $9 million to keep free admission, digitize collection

 

The Dallas Museum of Art on Tuesday announced an anonymous $9 million gift to ensure that regular admission remains free and that the museum’s permanent collection will be fully available online.

 

The gift provides $4 million, structured to be matched over five years with another $2 million, to bolster the free admission policy, which was instituted in January and has been widely praised.

 

The other $5 million will go to complete the digitization of the museum’s collection of 22,000 objects, by far the largest in North Texas, and create a platform for its universal, free access.

 

Funds are also included to assess the impact of the online project.

 

The DMA joins a growing number of institutions whose collections are available on the Internet. These include the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Yale University Art Gallery.

 

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