Maybe wikipedia should have a "request a photo/picture" page,
where people can put requests for photos to accompany articles.
Especially when dealing with monuments/buildings/objects in
museum.
Considering that Wikipedians are fairly widely spread around the
world, it should be fairly easy to get photographs from a wide range
of places.
With historical artifacts often the only photographs that are
publically available are copyright to the museums (for instance I
was trying to find a photo of the ancient board game "Royal Game
of Ur" to use in an article, but the only ones I could trace were all
copyright to the British Museum who own several of the few boards
to have survived).
Imran
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