Google Cultural Institute mentions (38)

• Why are so many books listed as "Borrow Unavailable" at the Internet Archive?

  Yes, great works of art can and should be preserved by making images and data freely available. How much of that is being done? Quite frankly, I don't know, but there are a number of museums that make their collections available to view online. Check out some of the links below. https://www.louvre.fr/en/online-tours#virtual-tours https://www.si.edu/exhibitions/online https://artsandculture.google.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 5 days ago

• El Prado Museum in Unprecedented Detail with New 360º Gigapixel Virtual Tour

  Google Arts & Culture has hundreds of excellent 360 museum (and other cultural site) tours here: https://artsandculture.google.com/ Separately, you can also zoom in to many artworks with extreme detail (e.g. 1000+ dpi). - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

• Can you even 'digitally curate' historical works? What counts as curation?

  Google art & culture is a terrific example if you are looking for one. Source: 9 months ago

• How do I get a custom print of a piece of art?

  If this is the case, hurdle #2 is getting a high resolution scan of the work. Your first stop should be the museum's website - they might have it right there for download. If it's a really well-known artist or piece, you might also find it at https://artsandculture.google.com/ - they have thousands of hi-res scans. Source: about 1 year ago

• My 3 year old son drew "a rooster"

  Uh, yeah. You need to create and environment for him to do this all the time. You need to drop money on supplies and see which he gravitates towards. You need to feed all the art in the world and see what he gravitates to, you can do this with with a Google Arts and Culture account You need to get season passes to set museums so he can study the textures and light. You need not to push this aside. He needs to... Source: over 1 year ago

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