Google Art project - Travel to the Museums of the World Online!
Yatzer - Art By Marcia Argyriades, 12 February 2011

Just how brilliant is the Google Art Project, which allows you to navigate through the galleries
of the world’s leading museums and zoom in, in high resolution to get a Gigapixel look into
masterpieces such as Rembrandt’s “Night Watch’’?

Some days ago, on February 1, 2011 in London, Google unveiled the Art Project, an exclusive
collaboration with some of the world’s much-admired art museums to allow online users to discover
and view more than a thousand artworks in explicit detail. Google has been working intensely over
the past 18 months with 17 art museums - Altes Nationalgalerie, The Freer Gallery of Art Smithsonian,
National Gallery (London), The Frick Collection, Gemäldegalerie, The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
MoMA, Museo Reina Sofia, Museo Thyseen - Bornemisza, Museum Kampa, Palace of Versailles,
Rijksmuseum, The State Hermitage Museum, State Tretyakov Gallery, Tate, Uffizi and Van Gogh Museum.

The outcome of this partnership is visible online as it includes a selection of Gigapixel images of famous
artworks, as well as collecting more than a thousand other images into one place. Furthermore, the
Google Art Project includes 360° tours of individual galleries using Street View ‘indoor’ technology.