The Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery of Art is one of 17 museums worldwide featured in Google Art Project, unveiled today in a press conference at the Tate Britain in London. The project combines some of the world’s great art collections with Google technologies, enabling people to virtually stroll the halls of Versailles, study objects in the Hermitage or gaze at Van Gogh’s “Starry Night” and other works in stunning gigapixel detail.
“The gigapixel experience brings us very close to the essence of the artist through detail that simply can’t be seen in the gallery itself,” said Julian Raby, director of the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. “Far from eliminating the necessity of seeing artworks in person, Art Project deepens our desire to go in search of the real thing.”
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