meet me in paris Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 What a great resource! My MIL told me about this today... here is the intro from the FAQ: http://www.googleartproject.com/ Simply select a museum from the homepage and then either chose ‘Explore the museum’ or ‘View Artwork’. Once you are in the main site use the drop-down menus or the side info bar to navigate between artworks and museums. Finally create and share your own collections online. Check out more videos on the Art Project’s YouTube Channel. Frequently Asked Questions What is the ‘Art Project’? A unique collaboration with some of the world’s most acclaimed art museums to enable people to discover and view more than a thousand artworks online in extraordinary detail. Explore museums with Street View technology: virtually move around the museum’s galleries, selecting works of art that interest you, navigate though interactive floor plans and learn more about the museum and you explore. Artwork View: discover featured artworks at high resolution and use the custom viewer to zoom into paintings. Expanding the info panel allows you to read more about an artwork, find more works by that artist and watch related YouTube videos. Create your own collection: the ‘Create an Artwork Collection’ feature allows you to save specific views of any of the 1000+ artworks and build your own personalised collection. Comments can be added to each painting and the whole collection can then be shared with friends and family. Our partners: For now the following museums are included in the project: Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin - Germany Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian, Washington DC - USA The Frick Collection, NYC - USA Gemäldegalerie, Berlin - Germany The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC - USA MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art, NYC - USA Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid - Spain Museo Thyssen - Bornemisza, Madrid - Spain Museum Kampa, Prague - Czech Republic National Gallery, London - UK Palace of Versailles - France Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam - The Netherlands The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg - Russia State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow - Russia Tate Britain, London - UK Uffizi Gallery, Florence - Italy Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam - The Netherlands I can't wait to create my collection! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KristinaBreece Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 :party:WoW! That's the most exciting thing I've seen in a long time! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farrar Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 I've been hearing about this everywhere, but I finally went to look at it. What's the point of doing the Freer if you can't go in the Peacock Room?!? That was the first thing I went to look at and you can't go inside and for some reason the letters over the door are spelled wrong in the image, when they're not in reality. At least, I'm pretty sure they're not. Anyway, super cool concept... I'm just not totally sold on the execution. Then again, I looked around the MoMA and that was kinda fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
annlaura Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 Oh wow! This is going to be a lovely resource! Thanks for posting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soror Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
---- Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 I'm always looking for new art resources. Thanks for posting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EppieJ Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 Way cool! Thanks for sharing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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