Google unveiled a new website that allows virtual tours of some of the world’s most famous art galleries, featuring paintings photographed with extreme high-resolution “gigapixel” technology.
For the Art Project, video cameras mounted on trolleys recorded 360-degree tours of galleries in eleven cities around the world.
- The Palace of Versailles (Versailles)
- The Van Gogh Museum, and Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam)
- Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery of Art (Washington, DC)
- Uffizi Gallery (Florence)
- The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and The Frick Collection (New York City)
- National Gallery, and Tate Britain (London)
- Museo Reina Sofia, and Museo Thyssen – Bornemisza (Madrid)
- Museum Kampa (Prague)
- The State Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg)
- The State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow)
- Alte Nationalgalerie, and Gemäldegalerie (Berlin)
View all the galleries at www.googleartproject.com
WATCH the video below