World museums with house slippers: the best online art galleries

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Museo ThyssenBornemisza art project google

Marching a digitization... The Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza museum during Google's Art Project

THYSSEN-BORNEMISZA MUSEUM, MADRID: INNOVATION OF NOBLE ABOLENGO

By walking through its corridors you are already validated Contemporary Art I. Thanks to the project Google Art Project , in which more than 150 museums from all over the world have collaborated, you can enjoy its rooms in the purest style street view . Can you imagine seeing a painting with a resolution of 14 million pixels? Here the canvases are transformed into super high resolution (Gigapixel) images. Gossipy and curious, the zoom awaits you to enjoy hitherto unknown details.

It begins with **The Young Knight in a Landscape** by Vittore Carpaccio. And continue with spring through the brush ** Renoir **, landscapes of auvers Van Gogh's Charing Cross Bridge painted by Monet ... Are you taking a liking to it? Download for free 7 centuries of history in 143 masterpieces with the Thyssen Museum App (can cause addiction, you are warned) .

MET 82nd Fifth

In the 82nd & Fifth section, MET professionals explain their favorite objects

THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, NEW YORK: PROFESSIONAL PASSION

Do you remember the time axes from your history book? Get ready to rediscover them interactively. Follow the artistic footsteps to live the history of humanity: Mesopotamia between 8000 and 2000 BC. , Iran between 1000 and 1400 or ** the Himalayas between the years 1400 and 1600 **.

Located between 82nd and Fifth Avenue, its 82nd & Fifth section it is a crossroads of art and ideas. Here you can see the curators of the museum explaining their favorite pieces on video (now also with Spanish subtitles ) or the first time they saw a painting and how it changed their lives (a pleasure to enjoy their passion!). Zoom in on each piece to come face to face with an Egyptian scribe, almost brushing against a 19th century French shawl or discover the terror that hides, in the jazz series, behind the brilliant shades of matisse .

MET website 82nd Fifth

The 82nd & Fifth section of the MET wants to be a crossroads of art and ideas

TATE BRITAIN, LONDON: THE ART OF MIXING

There is nothing more British than the landscapes of William Turner . His mist from him, his ships, his light! Enjoy them together with the electric guitar of Anna Calvi. make yourself comfortable and press play .

from the museum They propose to connect disciplines at the click rate. Enters with jacket, apron or pajamas . There is no dress code here. You dare to create your own culinary recipe inspired by the classics ? ¿ We chat about art and fashion ? Creativity up!

meadow web application

Discover the masterpieces of El Prado

PRADO MUSEUM: THE ESSENTIAL

Perhaps you went with the school, taking advantage of a family visit or, as more than one confesses in the short distances, you have lived in Madrid since the first year of your degree and **you have not yet set foot in El Prado**. Don't worry, you can catch up without taking off your slippers at home with its new application.

With 'Second Canvas' , for less than four euros, you will be able to experience Las Meninas in super-high resolution images, x-rays and infrared. Up to 14 gigapixel masterpieces and, yes, there is El Bosco's Garden of Earthly Delights. Ready to cross it off your to-do list?

The Meadow App

The Prado shares 14 gigapixel (ultra-HD) masterpieces on its mobile app

CHICAGO ART INSTITUTE: EUROPE ACROSS THE ATLANTIC

As long as you can't tickle their clouds , sneak into the lives treasured by the Art Institute of Chicago. Get ready to enjoy one of the biggest impressionist collections and Post-Impressionists of the world.

French art three clicks away. He arrives in Paris with Montet's Normandy train , Drink something at the Moulin Rouge with the women of Lautrec and survives the hangover with a pointillist afternoon of hat and parasol on the island of Grande Jatte (yes, seurat ).

seurat painter

When thousands of points make a Sunday afternoon on the island of Grande Jatte

MUSEUM LUDWIG, COLOGNE: WHEN YOU MAKE POP...

The largest collection of Pop art outside the United States He is in Cologne, Germany with the third largest of Picasso and a good handful of expressionists. Brujulea for his videos (with English subtitles) to keep up to date with its news.

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Museum Ludwig

Cross the corridors of the Museoi Museum Ludwig in Cologne without leaving home

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