Google Launches Art Project Featuring Street View

Google has partnered with some of the world's most well known art museums to bring the works of more than 400 artists online. ...
Google Launches Art Project Featuring Street View
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  • Google has partnered with some of the world’s most well known art museums to bring the works of more than 400 artists online.

    The Google Art Project allows users to take a virtual tour inside 17 art museums and view more than 1,000 works via Street View. Some of the museums include, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and MoMA in New York, The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Tate Britain & The National Gallery in London, Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid, the Uffizi Gallery in Florence and Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.

     

     

    Key features of the Google Art Project include:

    *Dive into brushstroke-level detail: On top of the 1,000+ other images, each of the 17 museums selected one artwork to be photographed in extraordinary detail using super high resolution or “gigapixel” photo-capturing technology. Each of these images contains around 7 billion pixels.

    *Explore inside the museums: the Street View team designed a brand-new vehicle called the “trolley” to take 360-degree images of the interior of selected galleries. These were then stitched together and mapped to their location, enabling smooth navigation of more than 385 rooms within the museums.

    *Create your own collection: With the “Create an Artwork Collection” feature, you can save specific views of any of the artworks and build your own personalized collection.

     

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