Cultural Heritage Coverage Report: European Paintings in Met Museum

Cultural Heritage Coverage Analysis

This issue documents findings from an analysis of cultural heritage coverage in the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection.

Key Findings

• Total Met Museum departments: 19
• European Paintings with images found via search: 87
• Average objects per department: 4.58
• Ratio of European Paintings to total departments: 4.5789

Data Sources

• Met Museum department listing and object search API
• MongoDB sample_mflix database (film database for cross-media comparison)
• Computed metrics via code execution

Notes

This report is part of an ongoing cultural heritage digitization assessment project.