Research note · July 13, 2026
Every object page has a printable QR code
Two QR codes on every LinkedCulture object page, one back to the object, one out to the museum's own record, for anyone who wants to point a phone at something instead of typing.
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A lot of museum objects live a double life: a real thing behind glass or in a gallery, and a digital record somewhere online. The two rarely point at each other. Wall labels don't carry URLs, handouts go stale, and a slide in a talk is just a picture with no path back to where it came from.
Every object page on LinkedCulture.org now solves that with two QR codes, sitting under "Get printable QR codes" so they stay out of the way until someone wants them.
The first scans back to the LinkedCulture page you're looking at. The second goes straight to the object's own record at the museum that holds it, the Met, the Getty, wherever it actually lives. Both download as print-ready PNGs.
Neither is a raw link to its destination. Both route through a short, non-guessable link on linkedculture.org first, so a scan gets counted the same way a click on the site would, and I can tell which QR codes are actually getting used out in the world versus sitting on a handout nobody scans.
Print one next to a monitor, drop it in a syllabus, put it on a slide. Try it yourself at linkedculture.org.