# @ucdavis on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DWPmCN6jOH0
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/79274220-ucdavis-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-03-23T22:26:38.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** UC Davis | California's College Town (@ucdavis) — https://gondola.cc/ucdavis

## Caption

Digitizing the Museum Collection, now on view at the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at the UC Davis, sounds like a contradiction. How can anything digital be an art exhibition?

One might expect screens, video depictions of art, a few people taking photos of art. Others are dutifully recording details in a database. A few pieces of art might be stacked on shelves. Some might be on display.

It is all those things and much more.

Once the museum staff digitizes the works, all will go from being a campus collection to being globally accessible for free in partnership with the UC Davis Library. The digitization launch happens in conjunction with the museum's 10th anniversary in fall 2026.

The exhibition runs through May 2. https://ucdav.is/4uNoTS4 

#UCDavis #ArtTech #Museums

Image descriptions: 
1: Close-up of a student in blue gloves holding a scanning device against the back of a wooden picture frame. Bright light glows from the center. 
2: A museum worker in blue gloves prepares a tall, colorful ceramic sculpture for photography under professional studio lighting. 
3: A person looks at a wall display with numerous white, yellow, and orange Post-it notes.
4: Three students lean over a large, shallow metal storage drawer in a museum, viewing two Polaroid photos protected under a clear cover.

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arttech, ucdavis, museums

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