Have you seen Google Art Project yet? Think Street View, but with museums instead of cities. Art Project just launched and is already great, and I bet it’s just going to keep getting better. Visiting a museum on your computer is, of course, no substitute for visiting one in real life, but for those of you who live in, say, Eugene, Oregon, it might scratch that museum itch a little. (Above is Gustave Courbet’s Woman with a Parrot, on view at The Met.)

Have you seen Google Art Project yet? Think Street View, but with museums instead of cities. Art Project just launched and is already great, and I bet it’s just going to keep getting better.

Visiting a museum on your computer is, of course, no substitute for visiting one in real life, but for those of you who live in, say, Eugene, Oregon, it might scratch that museum itch a little.

(Above is Gustave Courbet’s Woman with a Parrot, on view at The Met.)

2/2/2011 @ 9:43  #art #painting #Gustave Courbet #museums #google #awesomeness