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The Finnish National Gallery, consisting of the Ateneum Art Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma and the Sinebrychoff Art Museum, has put its collections online. Not only can you search for specific artists and their works, you can also decide to print your favourite ones.

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The following excerpt was taken from an article by Elizabeth Casale, which was first publshed last february on the website of AEA Consulting and deals with the fascinating issue of museums becoming commercial galleries and vice versa:

Over the past couple of years museums have been subject to growing criticism of their increasingly commercial stance. A related trend, the contours of which are only now becoming apparent, concerns the shift in the behavior of commercial galleries and auction houses, which are becoming decidedly more “museum-like”.

Read full article (Platform, AEA Consulting, February 2007)