Culture Grid is a unique online service from Collections Trust: joining and opening up UK collections for more use by more people in more ways.
It is key to Collections Trust’s promoting of excellence in collections and our aim to help organisations share their collections online safely and sustainably.
Culture Grid fits with UK open data initiatives for the public and higher education sectors and funder strategies and programmes from Arts Council England, Heritage Lottery Fund and others.
It is supported by Arts Council England and managed and delivered by Collections Trust with technical partners Knowledge Integration Ltd
Culture Grid contains collections information of all kinds and makes this more easily accessible to everyone through:
- Mobile and Social Media applications e.g. Find a Library
- International services e.g. Europeana
- Open Government services e.g. data.gov.uk
- Search engines e.g. Google
- Broadcasters e.g. BBC, C4
