(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Google has just announced a massive expansion of its Art Project, adding collections from a number of museums around the world, including tthe Museum of Islamic Art in Qatar.
The Project was started a year ago with a mere 1,000 high-resolution images from only 17 museums.
Now, wide range of institutions, large and small, traditional art museums as well as less traditional settings for great art, are represented in the expanded Art Project. Viewers can look at the White House in Washington D.C., explore the collection of the Museum of Islamic Art in Qatar and continue the journey in India, exploring the Santiniketan Triptych in the halls of the National Gallery of Modern Art, Delhi.
Moreover, instead of just featuring paintings, the site now contains sculpture, Brazlian street art, and even rock art from its 151 partner museums and art galleries in over 40 countries.
In the UK alone, 10 new gallery partners were announced to join existing British partners National Gallery in London and the Tate Britain, including Dulwich Picture Gallery; the Royal Collection; Victoria and Albert Museum; Serpentine Gallery; Imperial War Museum; National Galleries of Scotland; and the Jewish Museum, among others.
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4 April 2012 - 09:12
News ID: 306368
Google has just announced a massive expansion of its Art Project, adding collections from a number of museums around the world, including tthe Museum of Islamic Art in Qatar.
