Travel the Art World with Google :

Yep! That’s right, you will be able to visit major museums around the world in your PJ’s. Just this month Google announced their newest project fittingly named, “Art Project”.  According to Google’s press release, they took “super high resolution images of famous artworks, as well as collating more than a thousand other images into one place. It also included building 360 degree tours of individual galleries.” It’s very similar to their street view on Google Maps, except you’re inside.

So far 17 museums (Altes Nationalgalerie, The Freer Gallery of Art Smithsonian, National Gallery (London), The Frick Collection, Gemäldegalerie, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, Museo Reina Sofia, Museo Thyseen – Bornemisza, Museum Kampa, Palace of Versailles, Rijksmuseum, The State Hermitage Museum, State Tretyakov Gallery, Tate, Uffizi and Van Gogh Museum) have collaborated with Google so that we can see paintings and other artwork from all angles, even zoomed in. It doesn’t include all of the museums collections but it’s quite extensive to say the least!
Viewers have the option to just view the artwork, or virtually walk around the museum. I opt for the walk-about! Click the photo for more info, or click here for a tour of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam! A place I’m sure a lot of us from the US have not been.