Travel inside the Smithsonian or Museo Reina Sofia from a computer desktop. Google unveiled a new tool Tuesday that puts more than 1,000 works of art within reach. Google Art Project provides a
selection of high-resolution images of famous art works, as well as more than a thousand other images, by more than 400 artists.
Street View technology provides a virtual tour inside 17 of
the world's most art museums, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art and MoMA in New York, The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Tate Britain & The National Gallery in London, Museo
Reina Sofia in Madrid, the Uffizi Gallery in Florence and Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.
The technology allows the viewer to see each brush stroke. The site also lets people to create their own
collection with the "Create an Artwork Collection" feature. People can save specific views of the artwork and build a personal collection, adding comments to each painting. The collector can share the
collection with friends and family using the integrated goo.gl URL shortener.