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Tour these museums in your pajamas!

1/16/2012

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I spent this morning touring the Van Gogh Museum...using Google’s Art Project!
If you’re not familiar with this webpage, Google has taken the “Street View” technology and used it to document several well known art museums across the world.

This year, I was fortunate enough to visit The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Rome, and Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.  Now anyone with a computer has the opportunity to get a sense of what it’s like to wander the rooms of Uffizi Gallery in Florence.
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I was thrilled to see The Night Watch by Rembrandt in person at Rijksmuseum!
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I loved seeing Rembrandt's self-portrait in this painting!
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I couldn't get this close to The Nightwatch in Rijksmuseum.
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But you can get closer than I ever did via Google's Art Project! All of these images are screen-shots from there!
Grab a cup of coffee, and check out Google’s Art Project by clicking here!
Have a great beginning to your week!

Mary^Grab
a cup of coffee, and check out Google’s Art Project by clicking here!
Have a great beginning to your
week!
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11 Comments
Sweet Posy Dreams link
1/15/2012 11:13:56 pm

Wow, didn't know about this. What a great idea!

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Shawn link
1/15/2012 11:20:15 pm

Cool! Love this idea/opportunity.

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Colette link
1/16/2012 12:08:25 am

Wow!! That's a great idea, I am going to have to go check that website out :) Anything that I can do in my pajamas is something that I must do!

Colette

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Elise link
1/16/2012 12:23:13 am

Thanks for adding a link to the Google art project :)

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anns art @ studiohyde link
1/16/2012 12:23:39 am

I remember seeing this site some time ago, but had forgotten about it. Thank you so much for reminding me....now for the coffee and I won't be seen for hours!

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Nancy Rose link
1/16/2012 01:35:31 am

Didn't know this existed. thanks for sharing. I now can say I visited the Palace of Versailles.

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Keeping It Indie link
1/16/2012 02:58:17 am

Such gorgeous paintings - I had no idea about this - thanks for sharing!

Brandi
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LeAnn link
1/16/2012 03:01:01 am

Thank you for making me aware of Google's Art Project !! What a great resource! One of my favorite pasttimes when visiting my son in D.C. is browsing in the Smithsonian museums.

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Mary link
1/16/2012 06:34:23 am

Yeah, I love this too. I hope they expand it to include more museums and also more rooms in the museums they already have, because I've noticed that most only let you see certain rooms. Of course, it's no substitute for seeing art in person, but for those that can't travel, it's pretty awesome.

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Karin@creativechaos link
1/16/2012 01:22:15 pm

Hi mary! Thanks so much for stopping by my blog the other day! Here's to a creative 2012!

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Rustika link
1/16/2012 07:41:43 pm

This is fantastic! I didn't know about Google doing this. I will definitely check it out. Thank you so much for sharing.

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