(via TechNewsWorld)

A few years ago, several Google employees got together and asked a fateful question: What if they extended Google’s technologies of gathering and archiving information into the world of visual art?

The recently launched Google Art Project is the answer to that question, taking one of the broadest steps yet in bringing the bricks-and-mortar-and-paint world of art museums to easily accessible virtual spaces.

“We started thinking about how we might use Google’s technology to help museums make their art more accessible,” Amit Sood, head of the Google Art Project, told TechNewsWorld. “The goal was to think about how to bring art not just to regular museum-goers or to those fortunate to have museums in their cities, but to a whole new set of people who might otherwise never get to see real works of art up close.”

With the Google Art Project, 17 museums in nine countries, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art, have collaborated with Google to make their collections, including over 1,000 works of art, available to the public online.

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