March 31, 2011 8:04 AM
Google Art Project - explore museums at home
This is AMAZING!!!! A great example of how the Internet can bring culture - once available only to those who could afford to take off work and/or travel - straight into the homes of the masses. And by that I mean people like you and me.
GoogleArtProject.com offers two viewing modes - feasting your eyes on the masterpieces, but also actually strolling through the museum and seeing all perspectives. You will want to bookmark this page and share it with your family - because no matter where your children go to school, EVERY family can be a homeschooling family. Truly, truly amazing. YouTube video here - and news release from Australia:
Google Art Project brings 17 galleries and collections to virtual life
- February 01, 2011
Zoom in to priceless artworks ... Art Project allows people to get close to famous works, including the Museum of Modern Art's The Starry Night painting by Vincent van Gogh.
Google Art Project, which was launched overnight, brings 17 of the world's galleries and their priceless collections to virtual life so anyone with an internet connection can visit some of the world's premiere art spaces.
Art Project uses Google's Street View technology to enable people to "walk" the halls of St Petersburg's Hermitage Museum, the Palace of Versailles and the Museum of Modern Art among others, seeing more than 1000 artworks hanging in their current locations.
And one image in each of the 17 galleries featured - from Botticelli's The Birth Of Venus to Manet's In The Conservatory - use "gigapixel" technology to show the tiniest brush stroke, detail and imperfection in the paintings.
Each of the images has more than seven billion pixels.
Budding art lovers can learn as they wander the virtual galleries, with text and YouTube videos about the artist and artwork available at the click of a mouse.
For the more confident art aficionado, Art Project enables users to curate their own collections, allowing them to save particular views, comment on artworks and share their collection with friends, students, teachers and colleagues.
Art Project's head Amit Sood yesterday said that one of his inspirations was seeing young Londoners easily visiting the Tate Britain and other famed museums while he and his friends, raised in Bombay, could only see some of the world's art treasures after they grew up and began travelling.
He said he hoped people using Art Project were inspired to visit the real galleries.
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