Just like Google street view takes you to visit most cities around the world and very soon they’ll take you into shops & stalls, the Mountain View giant has finally opened their famous museum “Art Project“…
17 museums from all around the globe have participated in this initiative taking you around 385 rooms from these art galleries: 11 cities from from 9 countries, 17 paintings have been captured with a gigapixel detail, more than 6000 corridors, 1061 high resolution images of works and 486 artists are some of the figures we can pull out from the Art Project.
Story behind the project…
You may remember how in 2009 Google already collaborated with The Prado Museum by photographing some of their most famous paintings in high resolution. Clara Rivera from Google Spain and the Madrilian company “Madpixel” (behind the technology to capture these paintings) used the Prado as a testing lab to build what today is one of the new best ways to discover art.
Unfortunately despite being the testing ground, the Prado Museum declined Google’s offer to participate in this first release and if you carefully look at the list of Museums, there are still missing some major galleries in the world (Louvre, Prado, D’Orsay….) hopefully these will come too.
The possibilities seem truly endless and you can now create your own artwork collection (obviously using your Google account), but the best bit without a doubt is that you won’t have to pay to visit these Museums anymore…. is this why some major galleries have declined Google’s invitation? Are they afraid of loosing potential visitors? Mmmmmmm Test if for your self on the Arts Project site.
