In search of the best in world art

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Amit Sud, Art Project Manager for

South African Rock Art , Brazilian Street Graffiti , Australian Aboriginal Artwork - All this is available in the updated version of Google Art Project . From today, just a few clicks separate Internet users from the most striking and interesting masterpieces of world art. If earlier the Art project included only paintings, now with its help you can get acquainted with sculptures, photographs and even objects of street art from more than 150 partner museums and organizations in 40 countries .





Through an art project, Google aims to make art accessible to the widest possible audience. With the assistance ofThe Google Culture Institute in Paris, the company has already provided users with online access to the Dead Sea Scrolls , digitized the archives of Nelson Mandela , and created 3D models of 18th-century French cities .

Since the launch of the Art Project last year, curators, artists and users from all over the world have shared interesting ideas with us on how to make it even more fun: how to diversify the content and improve the tools that allow you to study works of art and share them with loved ones. In addition, museums and organizations from different countries expressed a desire to join the Art project.

We listened to everyone very carefully.

The first version of the art project was attended by 17 museums from 9 countries. It consisted of 1000 pictures of paintings, most of which belonged to the brush of Western artists. Today, the art project includes more than 30,000 high-resolution images . We used Street View technology for filming in 46 museums and will expand this list. This year, 3 new museums from Russia participated in the project - the State Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S. Pushkin , Russian Museum and Museum named after N.K. Roerich. They presented 2 pictures for gigapixel filming: the work of Giovanni Antonio Canal Canaletto “Return of Buchintoro to the pier at the Doge's Palace” from the Pushkin Museum. A.S. Pushkin and “The Last Day of Pompeii” by Karl Bryullovfrom the Russian Museum. Each shot consists of 7 billion pixels, which allows the viewer to study the smallest details of the picture that cannot be seen with the naked eye.

The updated version presents a full range of museums and organizations - large or chamber, traditional or more modern art sites. One click - and you walk around the White House in Washington, get acquainted with the collection of the Museum of Islamic Art in Qatar or study the “Shantiniketan Triptych” at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Delhi.

Here are a few features of the updated version of the Art project:
  • Panoramic photos of museums and organizations are now available on the site in improved quality. With the help of special equipment, pictures were taken inside some cultural centers. Based on these photos, panoramas were later created. This gave 
    visitors the opportunity to stroll through more than 385 museum rooms directly on googleartproject.com . You can also access the museum from Google Maps in Street View .
  • Users can search by the name of the artist, the name of the work, type of art, museum, country, city and collections. The functionality of Google+ (in particular, the possibility of organizing video calls) is integrated on the website of the service, which gives users the opportunity to share their personal collections and discuss them with friends. 
  • More than 30,000 works of art are presented in high resolution. Some works were photographed in ultra-high quality, which allows you to see the smallest details of the works - for example, patina and strokes, which are simply not visible to the naked eye. 
  • The My Galleries feature has also been improved. Now users can choose any of the 30,000 works of art presented in the project to create their own collections. You can leave comments for each picture, and share collections with family and friends. This feature is especially useful for students or other groups of interested users for joint work on projects.




We are very pleased that we were able to create a convenient platform that helps users interact with art. We hope that it will appeal to both students and novice artists, and true connoisseurs of art. The art project has become a reality thanks to our partners around the world. We all work to arouse the interest in art among millions of our users.

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