Google Art Project Brings Museums to You in Street View
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In this unique collaboration with prestigious art museums around the world, Google has brought some of the most influential and famous works of art across oceans and mountains to your computer screen. The Google Art Project brings over 1,000 works of art by 486 artists from 17 different museums to you in exceptional detail.
The collaborating museums include The Metropolitan Museum of Art and MoMA in New York, The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Tate Britain and The National Gallery in London, Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid, the Uffizi Gallery in Florence and Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Without leaving the house, you can take 360 degree tours of over 385 rooms within the museums using Street View ‘indoor’ technology. Using the info panel, you can read more about the piece of artwork, find more works by the same artist, and watch related YouTube videos. You can also save views of your favorite pieces in your own collection and share it with your friends and family.
Taking this a step further, each of the 17 museums selected one piece of art to be photographed using super high resolution or “gigapixel” photo capturing technology with each image containing 7 billion pixels. This allows you to see the brushwork and super fine (hidden) details you could never view with the naked eye. I spent awhile exploring “No Woman, No Cry” and the zoom ability and resolution will blow your mind.
Check out a preview video after the jump!
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