According to the public relations of the Golestan Palace World Heritage Complex report, recently a small part of the Golestan Palace's historical photo album, known as "Shadow Albums", has been published online.
Shadow albums are actually albums scanned from the original version, prepared to serve researchers and academics. Therefore, no object or album is missing, but the digital version of the albums has been released.
Some of these photos have been made available to domestic and even foreign researchers many times, and the subject was not unpublishable.
In order to better serve the academic and research community and in line with this year's motto of ICOM, which is "Museums for Education and Research", the Golestan Palace World Heritage Complex has decided to publicly release "Shadow Albums" and the process of categorizing photos and renaming folders is underway.
Nevertheless, the hasty and non-final release of a part of this huge archive is under consideration.
It should be noted that in recent years, the digital publication of documents and images has escalated in the museums of the world, and this issue, in addition to increasing the value and prestige of a museum among the audience, leads to an increase in the number of its visitors.