Cite de la Musique

[etbarbaric]

The Cite de la Musique in Paris used to have a really cool site that would let you search and view their instrument collections. The site has been gone for several weeks at least. Does anyone know what happened? Did it go away for good, or just move somewhere less obvious?

Thanks,

Eric

[Eugene]

Hmmm, I have no trouble viewing http://www.cite-musique.fr/, although I haven't searched their catalog for images of specific instruments for a while. #I'll try when I have a free moment.

[etbarbaric]

Sorry, I should have been more clear. The museum's main page still works, it is specifically:

http://servsim.cite-musique.fr

that seems to have gone away. I get a "connection refused" message from the browser.

Eric

[onthefiddle]

Hello again Eric!

It still seems to be accessible in French!
Try this link:


http://mediatheque.cite-musique.fr/masc....RL=http (http://mediatheque.cite-musique.fr/masc/?URL=http://mediatheque.cite-musique.fr/clientbooklineCIMU/toolkit/p_requests/default-collection-musee.htm)

Jon

[etbarbaric]

Aha! Thank you Jon. That is indeed it. It never was available in English, but they seem to have rewritten the application to display and format differently and changed the location as well (that is, the URL).

Thanks again!

Eric

[Eugene]

However, they also forgot to correct the link from the English pages. The English pages still refer to the dead search.

[etbarbaric]

The *really* good news is that the application is actually better (not just new). You can now view higher-resolution versions of the individual photos. With the old version, you got a message to the effect that you had to be in the Museum (or some such) in order to see larger versions.

Oh happy day...

Eric

[onthefiddle]

Wow! That really is good news Eric - they have such a good collection of instruments, so well documented - this was the only missing element to a perfect museum website.
I recommend that anyone interested takes the time to properly explore their site.
Anyway, we have a very multinational dinner party happening here - including a native of New York - Dawn sends her compliments Doreen!
Cheers!
Jon

[etbarbaric]

Yes, a world-class Website indeed. The photos themselves are visibly grainy, however. Either they've done this intentionally, or the original scans were somewhat low-res. I any case, it is certainly better than it was.

Eric