Google Art Project
On February 2nd I posted the information on the Google museum project. Recently a colleague sent me the link to this TED Talk called Amit Sood: Building a museum of museums on the web.
Amit Sood is the head of Art Project, Google’s effort to bring the world’s greatest museums onto the web. Amid is the creator of the idea and behind the building of the website, 18 months of a team working to make it happen. Amid grew up in India and while he was growing up he didn’t have access to great museums. When he started traveling he learned a lot from visiting museums. He put together the desire to make museums more accessible with the technology to make the Google art project become reality.
Amid makes it clear that the project supplements the experience of visiting the museum not to replicate the experience. If you haven’t visited I highly recommend that you check out the Google museum site as well as watch the TED Talk.
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