PAGE TO VISIT THE MUSEUMS OF THE WORLD BEST
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
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Google launches a page to visit museums around the world
With Art Project can be accessed from today, 17 art museums in the world. It uses a resolution 1,000 times greater than that of digital cameras.
Art lovers have a tool today essential in Art Project, the initiative that Google can access the network to a unique collection of artworks of 17 museums around the world with exceptional image quality and the ability to interact
Art lovers have a tool today essential in Art Project, the initiative that Google can access the network to a unique collection of artworks of 17 museums around the world with exceptional image quality and the ability to interact
The Metropolitan Museum
of Art, the Hermitage, the palace of Versailles, the Rijksmuseum, Tate, Reina Sofia and Thyssen are among the institutions that collaborated with this project, which also facilitates making a 360 degree virtual tour through the galleries of museums by a street-view technology. By visiting , Internet users can see works such as "Starry Night" by Van Gogh, New York's MoMA, "The bottle of anisette of the monkey" by Juan Gris, the Reina Sofia in Madrid and "The Birth of Venus" by Sandro Botticelli in the Uffizi Gallery. 
works can be seen in a resolution of 7,000 million-pixel picture quality than 1,000 times that of conventional digital cameras, allowing visually see microscopic details of the line of works.
works can be seen in a resolution of 7,000 million-pixel picture quality than 1,000 times that of conventional digital cameras, allowing visually see microscopic details of the line of works. 
These images are added the other thousand works that can be seen virtually hanging on the walls of their museums, accompanied by explanations in YouTube videos about three minutes of art experts.
The project was presented at Tate Britain. Its director, Nicholas Serota, said that Art Project "gives all our audiences an unparalleled opportunity to really come so close to great works of art."
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Google's vice president for Europe, Africa and the Middle East, Nelson Mattos, considered this "a major step forward in the way people interact with these wonderful pieces of art" and stressed that facilitate access to the arts to millions of people who can not visit a museum.
Google's vice president for Europe, Africa and the Middle East, Nelson Mattos, considered this "a major step forward in the way people interact with these wonderful pieces of art" and stressed that facilitate access to the arts to millions of people who can not visit a museum.
Mattos said that in the future be extended this project and you can get to other major museums are not on the list, such as the Louvre and the Prado. While
Amit Sood, director of the project, declined to elaborate on the reasons that have prevented these museums are part of this initiative, said "the door remains open."
Miguel Angel Recio
, managing director of Thyssen Madrid, was very satisfied with the product and said he is convinced that, far away to visitors of museums, Art Project will stimulate and attract new visitors "to other of users. " 
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