Putting Art on the Map: First World War Crowdsourcing with IWM

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Putting Art on the Map is a crowdsourcing project to geo-locate and enrich the fantastic First World War collection held by the Imperial War Museums'. IWM have shared hundreds of First World War artworks on Historypin for you to explore, curate and enrich. The collection is hugely diverse, covering all aspects of the First World War conflict from Britain to Mesopotamia.

Historypin have built tools to enable people to geo-locate the artworks and create a collaborative map of First World War art. As well as mapping the collection, the project is running a series of live events, in person and online, to bring people together to solve mysteries within the collection.

Three ways you can get involved with the project:

• Go online and solve mysteries on Putting Art on the Map
• Watch Twitter, Facebook and Google+ for our #ArtMap mystery posted every day by IWM
• Come and join us for one of our great live events, see below for details.

Crowdsourcing Postal and Telecommunications History During the First World War?
Date: Monday 10 February 2014
Time: 1 – 4pm
Location: Royal Mail Archive, Freeling House, Phoenix Pl, London WC1X 0DL

Crowdsourcing Aviation History of the First World War?

Date: Saturday 22 February 2014
Time 1 – 3pm. Optional Museum tour at 3pm.
Location IWM Duxford, Cambridgeshire CB22 4QR

Crowdsoursing the Maritime History of the First World War?
Date: Thursday 27 February 2014
Time: 6.30pm – 8.30pm
Location: Steam, Steel and Submarines Gallery, The Historic Dockyard, Chatham, Kent ME4 4TE

Crowdsourcing William Orpen

Date: Tuesday 4 March 2014

Time: 2pm – 4pm

Location: Orpen Boardoom, IWM London, Lambeth Road, SE1 6HZ

Putting Art on the Map is a partnership between Historypin, Imperial War Museums and University of Edinburgh and supported by NESTA, the AHRC and Arts Council England as part of the Digital R&D Fund for the Arts.