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swiss-ai/smithsonian (dataset)

The Swiss AI Initiative has released the "swiss-ai/smithsonian" dataset on the Hugging Face Hub. It contains recaptioned museum objects from the Smithsonian, with captions grounded in the museum's catalogue record, and includes detailed breakdowns by unit such as the National Portrait Gallery (12,247 objects), National Postal Museum (7,477), National Museum of American History (7,306), Cooper Hewitt (5,280), National Museum of African American History and Culture (4,223), and Smithsonian Institution Archives (4,163). The dataset is categorized as research and is available for download at http…

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19 Aug 2026
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The Swiss AI Initiative has released the "swiss-ai/smithsonian" dataset on the Hugging Face Hub. It contains recaptioned museum objects from the Smithsonian, with captions grounded in the museum's catalogue record, and includes detailed breakdowns by unit such as the National Portrait Gallery (12,247 objects), National Postal Museum (7,477), National Museum of American History (7,306), Cooper Hewitt (5,280), National Museum of African American History and Culture (4,223), and Smithsonian Institution Archives (4,163). The dataset is categorized as research and is available for download at http…

Why it matters

This dataset demonstrates the Swiss AI Initiative's commitment to providing high‑quality, open‑access multimodal data for AI research, supporting Swiss AI development and collaboration.

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