British Museum surfs the NFT wave with the works of William Turner

The British Museum has digitised 20 paintings by William Turner from its collection, transforming them into NFTs. Pictured is Turner's 'A Storm (Shipwreck) from 1823. Photo: British Museum

The NFT craze continues unabated. As such, the British Museum is pursuing its collaboration with the French start-up LaCollection to produce NFT versions of some of its artworks. After a first initiative dedicated to the Japanese painter Hokusai, the British institution is now turning to the works of William Turner.

The British Museum has digitised 20 of the English painter's artworks and turned them into Non-Fungible Tokens, or NFTs. The works were bequeathed to the institution by Robert Wylie Lloyd, the former chairman of Christie's. Among them are watercolours by the English painter, such as The Colosseum, Rome and Lucerne By Moonlight.