Facebook, Youtube and Twitter are some of the most influential social networking sites in the internet world.
Catching the people’s attention to have interest in an art exhibit will now be possible with the help of the internet.
Now, as the latest step done by the internet, Google Art project was launched to uncover the 17 museums including the National Gallery in London and MoMA in New York.
Carefully chosen artworks of The State Hermitage in Saint Petersburg, Tate Britain in London and Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum are greatly included to provide you clearer details by just a click of your mouse.
Detailed artworks can be viewed while galleries are seen at its finest possible views.
Since the above mentioned museums already reside in their own websites, it was time to tie up with the online giant of the United States.
According to the Place of Versailles for new media known to be Laurent Gaveau, they have to seek out Internet user, on social networks, the networking sites, wherever they may be.
Palace of Versailles is said to be the only French museum who takes part in the Google project. Where, Google can surely offer what they call a technological muscle.
Gaveau adds that using gigapixel is a new approach where he refers to the high-resolution system that is used for taking pictures of the paintings.
Viewers will be able to see clearer details like that of “The Harvesters” by Peter Bruegel the Elders. Exploring the benefits of the zoom function is a big advantage. That even the smallest details of the peasants who enjoy their modest meal in the field are close to reality.
A new way of enjoying tours on prestige museums throughout the world can now happen in front of your monitors. Where, such innovation defines the viewer’s case of discovering heritage, culture and masterpiece as they would likely enjoy zooming and scrolling galleries of many sections.
Viewing museums by the use of the internet will have a convincing power that visitors of the site will be persuaded to visit, appreciate and honor the richness handled by museums of different destinations.
From Britain’s National Gallery, Charlotte Sexton emphasized that there is plenty of evidence showing that when people is engaged on the relevant content online can drive viewers to go and see the real thing.
And for some that certain reasons that they aren’t able to physically visit their ever wanted museums, at least there is a virtual experience for them that can as well be considered worthwhile.
Even the Palace of Versailles trusts the benefits that going online can be great. Looking ahead as three years from now, its decision to cooperate with the three popular social networking sites will direct people to view their websites and eventually count of six million viewers annually.