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Explore Art Museums Around the World with the Google Art Project
Google's collaboration with art museums around the world produces a winning combination.
The Google Art Project has over one thousand artworks online gathered from art museums around the world.
Art lovers will truly enjoy this site - the many works online bring the art to you without needing to travel to each museum. :)
A bit about the project: all the artwork and galleries have been curated by the individual museums, with each museum deciding the number of galleries, what artwork, and what information to include.
The site can be explored with Google's Street View technology (choose Explore the museum from the menu) and using the Artwork view (choose View Artwork from the menu). You can also create your own collections. Here's a list of the museum's currently participating in the project:
- Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin - Germany
- Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian, Washington DC - USA
- The Frick Collection, NYC - USA
- Gemäldegalerie, Berlin - Germany The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC - USA
- MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art, NYC - USA
- Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid - Spain
- Museo Thyssen - Bornemisza, Madrid - Spain
- Museum Kampa, Prague - Czech Republic
- National Gallery, London - UK
- Palace of Versailles - France
- Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam - The Netherlands
- The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg - Russia
- State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow - Russia
- Tate Britain, London - UK
- Uffizi Gallery, Florence - Italy
- Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam - The Netherlands
Site navigation is fairly straightforward using directional arrows, drop down menus and side bars.
You can also visit the Art Project’s YouTube Channel.
All images on the site are copyright protected by the individual museums, and the site itself is subject to Google's Terms of Service.
It's an amazing collaboration, well worth a visit if you like artwork. It's easy to lose a lot of time at this site.
From time to time the site would load a bit slow while I was visiting. It could be site traffic, a slow connection where I am, or the high resolution images loading. If you're on a dial up connection I would visit the site to see how it loads for you.
You'll need a Flash enabled browser to view the site.
Art Project, powered by Google
Enjoy,
Rhiannon
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Thanks for this great tip Rhiannon.
For the fellow art lovers on the list, here is a great site powered by Silverlight that allows you to zoom deep into many of the pieces held at The Louvre - http://musee.louvre.fr/zoom/index.html?culturename=en-US
I can zoom right into the eyeball of the Mona Lisa (Truly Amazing) and the image will sharpen up. Tip: to Zoom in/out, roll your mouse wheel once hovering over the image.
If you don't have Silverlight, you can download it for all popular web browsers from http://www.silverlight.net and believe me it's worth it - Enjoy.
Regards, Mark
Sydney - Australia
@markvozzo
[Moderator's note : Replaced original non-English link with an English one.]
Yes, Google Art Project seems to me to be a great new facility. Way back in my schooldays, the excellent history of art teacher advised us always to take a magnifying glass along when visiting galleries. Great advice but not always so practical what with crowds of tourists and understandably jumpy security staff. Google Art Project allows you to take a powerful virtual magnifying glass to the contents of paintings in the comfort of your own browser. Of course, it doesn't pretend to replace the real life impact of a work of art: for instance, no computer screen can yet reproduce the texture of a canvas. And I have to admit that I've hardly ever felt so aware of the presence individual pixels as when exploring paintings with this online app. Although Google Art Project hasn't garnered unanimous support, it seems to have surprised at least one expert. Awesome!
Very nice find Rhiannon! thanks ;-)
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