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Art project on Google

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

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

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

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

You can navigate through the galleries, choose you are interested in works of art, read the information about them or in the smallest details to view images of those works that are shot in ultra-high resolution (each such image is composed 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 view videos on YouTube, telling the picture, as well as listen to audio files.

To create a panorama museum interior specialists Google specially finished devices used when creating a service Street View. The results of the survey were compiled, and now all users can easily "walk" of 385 rooms of different galleries of the world.

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

Museums in the project:

Old National Gallery , Berlin, Germany
Art Gallery Freer at the Smithsonian Institution , Washington, USA
Frick Collection , New York, USA
Berlin art gallery , Berlin, Germany
Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York, USA
Museum of Modern Art , New York, USA
Reina Sofia , Madrid, Spain
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
State Tretyakov Gallery , Moscow, Russia
Tate Gallery , London, UK
Uffizi Gallery , Florence, Italy
Van Gogh Museum , Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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