Google Arts & Culture
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| Virtual tour through museums and exhibitions , high-resolution display of exhibits | |
| languages | English, German, Spanish and much more. |
| operator | Google Inc. |
| Registration | No |
| On-line | February 1, 2011 |
| https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/ | |
Google Arts & Culture (formerly Google Art Project ) is a web application from the US company Google Inc. It enables a virtual tour of a large number of museums and exhibitions in the manner of a street view . High-resolution photographs and detailed information can be called up for some of the exhibits .
Google Arts & Culture is part of the company's own Google Cultural Institute .
History of origin
The project grew out of the ability of Google employees to spend 20 percent of their time on their own projects and was taken over by the company. It was realized in just eighteen months under the Google manager Nelson Mattos and required only two nights per museum to record the paintings and the premises. From the museum's point of view, there is an advertising effect and new opportunities for education, knowledge transfer and research. A year earlier, Google had made fourteen works of art on display in the Prado in Madrid available as high-resolution photographs in Google Earth .
The web application has been publicly available since February 1, 2011.
technology
The same technology was used to display the premises as for the in-house Street View service . This is not available when visiting all institutions, but covers more than 385 rooms in around 60 museums, e.g. B. the Musée d'Orsay, the White House or the Museum of Islamic Art.
The Gigapan photo robot , which was co-developed by the company and can take pictures with a resolution in the gigapixel range, was used. Such panoramic robots control digital cameras that automatically photograph the object in many thousands of individual images. Continuous light was used at a very flat angle. This enabled the photographers to control the light better than would have been possible with flash. The user can create his own collection of his favorite works of art online.
Participating museums and exhibits (selection)
At the beginning of the project, Google worked with seventeen museums in eleven cities and nine countries in Europe, Russia and the United States, including the Tate Gallery , London ; the Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York City ; and the Uffizi , Florence .
1086 pictures by 486 artists were available in early February 2011. Each museum provided a work of art for particularly high-resolution reproduction. At the beginning of April 2012 there were already more than 30,000 high-resolution works of art in 151 museums from 41 countries. In 2015, Google itself spoke of over 250 institutions and more than 45,000 works of art by over 6,000 artists. Partnerships with German museums have also been expanded. With the Altes Museum , the Pergamonmuseum , the Alte Nationalgalerie , the Gemäldegalerie and the Kupferstichkabinett , five locations of the Berlin State Museums are represented with works of art. The Dresden State Art Collections and the Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf also take part.
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reception
The project quickly received attention in the international press. The freedom of application of advertising and the ease of use were praised, but the visual experience of the virtual tours, in contrast to that of the high-resolution paintings, was also criticized, since obscurations and reflexes are disturbing. The quality of the extremely high-resolution reproductions was generally admired, but it was also pointed out that the direct, three-dimensional experience of the works of art cannot be compared with it. Specialists such as the director of Tate Britain, Nicholas Serota and Nicholas Penny , director of the UK's National Gallery, indicated that previously unknown details could be discovered.
Der Spiegel noted that large museums make their holdings digitally available themselves and also described the project as a "gimmick". For example, the Europeana Internet platform already exists , so Google has not taken up a new idea. On the other hand, it was emphasized that the Internet company had already played a pioneering role more often and that the project was still in the start-up phase.
There is no fear of a decline in the number of visitors to the museums; the risk that potential art thieves could use the software to spy on museums was taken into account during development. Street View had similar concerns about private homes.
In the first week, ten million visitors were counted, who created 70,000 private collections online.
Web links
- Google Arts & Culture
- Google Art Project - Street Art
- Fabian Kockartz: Google Art Project: Visit the most fascinating museums in the world today . In: Kunst-in-Bildern.de, September 29, 2015
Individual evidence
- ^ Google Cultural Institute , accessed October 23, 2014.
- ↑ a b Art on February 3, 2011: The art toy. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 7, 2011 ; Retrieved February 6, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b c Wiener Zeitung of February 9, 2011: Virtual depth of field. Retrieved February 9, 2011 .
- ^ FAZ on January 15, 2009. Retrieved on March 4, 2015 .
- ↑ Press release from Google on February 1, 2011. Archived from the original on January 21, 2012 ; accessed on February 6, 2011 .
- ^ The Epoch Times online February 5, 2011: "Rembrandt: Like". Retrieved February 6, 2011 .
- ^ Handelsblatt on February 2, 2011: With Google into the museum. Retrieved February 9, 2011 .
- ^ A b Google Cultural Institute: About Art Project. Retrieved November 19, 2015 .
- ^ BZ Berlin on February 4, 2011: Google View for museums and masterpieces. Retrieved February 6, 2011 .
- ↑ Focus online on April 4, 2012: Google is digitizing the world's museums. Retrieved April 24, 2012 .
- ^ Google Art Project: Expansion of the partnership with German museums , netzwelt, April 4, 2012. Retrieved on April 4, 2012.
- ↑ Link to the picture; protected by copyright
- ↑ Link to the picture; protected by copyright
- ↑ Heise online on February 1, 2011: Strolling through museums with Google. Retrieved February 9, 2011 .
- ↑ Spiegel online on February 1, 2011: Google launches online gallery. Retrieved February 6, 2011 .
- ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung on February 1, 2011: Under the conjunctiva. Retrieved February 6, 2011 .
- ^ The Washington Post on February 1, 2011: National Treasures: Google Art Project unlocks riches of world's galleries. Retrieved February 6, 2011 .
- ↑ Der Tagesspiegel on February 16, 2011: I'll stay here then. Retrieved February 16, 2011 .
