The British Museum is a digital humanities project that demonstrates what makes DH an extremely important tool in the cooperative and exploratory realm of the Humanities and art. This project is, in my opinion, so great for many reasons. At first glance the British Museum displays their collection while offering viewers an opportunity to explore, plan, and analyze the content, but with a little digging, the site becomes less of a one-sided website and more of a explorable learning tool.

One of the first things that caught my attention as I clicked around on the main page was the museum’s distinction as a real place with real things, “Free Open Daily,” “Getting Here,” and “Plan Your Visit.” It doesn’t take much scrolling to access the digital gallery, and from there the collection opens up to display “over 3.5 million objects.” The inclusion of the British Museum’s website as a great example of Digital Humanities relies on the curators attention to audience and detail. Because there is a plethora of ways to interact with the pieces on the site, “Search Highlights,” “Themes,” “Kids discover.”

Of course, because the website houses so many different images and pieces, the navigation of that data is complex and can become burdensome when trying to search for one piece. With so many ways into the data, it becomes confusing, distracting, and at least for me, a downer. This doesn’t mean that I am not extremely impressed with the presentation, this means that the British Museum has so many great things that they want to display them all and it becomes heavy.