Open Data sets at the Natural History Museum – Altmetric

"The movement for open and available data has previously been a part of the mandates of other museums who now make their data available online, mostly via data files or API. You can even see museums that will have GitHub repositories, such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York (here’s their repository). Cooper-Hewitt has a free public API (here’s their documentation), with their data available as part of their open source mandate.

The Natural History Museum’s decision to make all of this data free and assign unique identifiers is an exciting decision and a great example of just what could be achieved."