Google Art Project

This is an amazing site! It's basically google street view but in art galleries! I was able to stroll through the Van Gogh Museum and then take a trip and glide through the MoMA in New York. This is a very amazing way to utilize this type of technology, it enables people the opportunity to view artwork that they may never get the opportunity to see in real life. I know that it does not show the scale and grandeur of some pieces but you are able to see it in its frame, totally beating looking at it in a text book. Then there is the detail in some of the images, you are able to view some images as a whole or zoom in, zoom until you are able to see every brush stroke and every splodge of paint! it is truly amazing and definitely a new and adventurous way of showing people art.

 

http://www.googleartproject.com/