The Aquarelle project aimed at designing and developing a distributed multimedia information system, offering access to information describing cultural heritage such as painting, sculptures, historical sites and monuments, musical instruments and furniture.
Cultural information is provided by many cultural organisations under various forms and structures (record, document, image, draw-platforms or text bases), using different information systems and platforms.
The main objectives of the Aquarelle project was to make cultural information available to a large amount of researchers, publishers, museum curators etc., by :

• providing a uniform access to heterogeneous distributed databases and collections of data,
• linking and commenting pieces of information belonging to different databases and,
• offering multilingual terminology support.