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Art project on Google

Originally posted by andrei_71 at Art project by Google

More than a thousand works of art from 17 museums in the world are now available online under Art project!

Today, Google is Art Project - the result of unique collaboration of Google and the famous museums of the world. Now you can meet and consider in great detail over a thousand works of art on the site googleartproject.com .

The project involves 17 art museums including the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg and the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow. The site is a collection of googleartproject.com gigapikselnyh images of famous works of art and collected thousands of photographs of other great works. When using a panoramic Street View technology created a virtual tour through the halls of art galleries.

Now any person, in whatever country he may be, can learn more about works of art from around the world, about their history and their creators.

You can navigate through the galleries, choose the product you are interested in art, read the information about them or to the smallest detail to view images of those works that are shot in ultra-high resolution (each such image consists of 14 billion pixels). The Information tab, you can read the accompanying text about the work, to find other work of the same artist and watch videos on YouTube, telling about the picture, as well as listen to audio files.

To create a panorama museum interior specialists specially Google finalized the hardware used to create service "Street View". The results of the survey were compiled, and now all users can easy to "stroll" of 385 rooms of different galleries of the world.

In addition, users Art projects can create their own collections and send links them to their friends, who, in turn, will comment on the work they liked.

Museums in the project:

Old National Gallery , Berlin, Germany
Freer Gallery of Art at the Smithsonian Institution , Washington, USA
Frick Collection , New York, USA
Berlin Picture Gallery , Berlin, Germany
Metropolitan Museum , New York, USA
Museum of Modern Art , New York, USA
Reina Sofia , Madrid, Spain
Museum Thyssen - Bornemisza , Madrid, Spain
Museum Kampa , Prague, Czech Republic
National Gallery , London, UK
Palace of Versailles , France
State Museum , Amsterdam, The Netherlands
State Hermitage , St. Petersburg, Russia
Tretyakov Gallery , Moscow, Russia
Tate , London, UK
Uffizi Gallery , Florence, Italy
Van Gogh Museum , Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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