Virtual Museums and Art Galleries Around the World

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Metropolitan Museum of Art - The Met Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, byname the Met, the largest and most-comprehensive art museum in New York City and one of the foremost in the world. Its permanent collection contains over 2 million works, divided among 17 curatorial departments. The Met has important collections of Egyptian, Babylonian, Assyrian, East Asian and Middle Eastern, Greek and Roman, European, pre-Columbian, New Guinean, Islamic, and American art, including architecture, sculpture, painting, drawings, calligraphy, prints, photographs, glass, bronzes, ceramics, textiles, metalwork, lacquerwork, furniture, period rooms, arms and armour, and musical instruments.

European art of the Middle Ages is found on display in both the Central Park complex and at “The Met Cloisters,” the Met museum of medieval art in Fort Tryon Park in the northern part of Manhattan. It contains an extensive collection of art, architecture, and artifacts from medieval Europe.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has been digitizing its collections for a long time. Now the online library has gainedover 470,000 new images. They are in free access, which means that they can not only be viewed, but also downloaded.

The collection was made available in cooperation with Creative Commons and Pinterest. Museum director Thomas Campell points out that the online collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which is a cross-section of 5,000. years of culture, it is currently one of the largest collections available on the web.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art provides select datasets of information on more than 470,000 artworks in its Collection for unrestricted commercial and noncommercial use. To the extent possible under law, The Metropolitan Museum of Art has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this dataset using the Creative Commons Zero license.

This work is published from the United States of America. These select datasets are now available for use in any media without permission or fee; they also include identifying data for artworks under copyright. The datasets support the search, use, and interaction with the Museum’s collection.

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The British Museum in London

The British Museum

The British Museum, located in the Bloomsbury area of London, is a public institution dedicated to human history, art and culture. Its permanent collection numbers some 8 million works, and is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence having been widely sourced during the era of the British Empire, and documenting the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present. It’s the first national public museum in the world.

The exhibits are looked after by eight departments that carry out conservation and research work:
1. Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan
2. Department of Greece and Rome
3. Department of the Middle East
4. Department of Prints and Drawings
5. Department of Britain, Europe and Prehistory
6. Department of Asia
7. Department of Africa, Oceania and the Americas
8. Department of Coins and Medals

Thanks to the cooperation with the Google Cultural Institute, we can also see the collections of the British Museum, which began digitizing its resources and began making them available online. The collection, which has been shared by the British Museum, includes nearly 2 million different paintings - from photos of exhibits to historical photos.

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Louvre Museum in Paris

Louvre Museum in Paris

The Louvre has launched a free database detailing over 480,000 works of art from the national collections and registered in the inventories of the museum's eight curatorial departments (Near Eastern Antiquities; Egyptian Antiquities; Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities; Islamic Arts; Painting; Medieval Sculptures, Renaissance and Modern; Prints and Drawings; Medieval, Renaissance and Modern Decorative Art), in the History sections of the Louvre or in the inventories of the Musée National Eugène-Delacroix. The database is in French and English.

We can search the database with any search terms and filter by collections, categories or artists. Each exhibit is described in detail and photographed.

The Louvre Museum can also be visited virtually. From the main page, we can enter the interactive map and display the exhibits present in each room. Descriptions also in French and English.

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The Art of Banksy - “Without Limits”

The Art of Banksy exhibition is the first in Poland such a large presentation of the works of this mysterious and controversial artist. The exhibition left Instabul in 2016 and since then has been hosted by Amsterdam, Paris, Berlin, Riyadh, Melbourne, Antwerp, Bucharest, Cluj, Budapest, Vienna, and now it can be seen at Centrum Praskie Koneser in Warsaw.

The exhibition will be open until:
5 September 2021​

At the exhibition we will find over 100 works, original exhibits but also works in the form of photographs, sculptures and many others. Moreover, some of the exhibits are reconstructed using his own technique – templates created especially for this exhibition. You can watch the most popular graffiti such as “Girl with Balloon”, “Bomb Hugger”, “Police Kids”, “Pulp Fiction” or “Flower Thrower”.

Banksy is probably the most famous and mysterious graffiti artist in the world. A 40-year-old British man successfully keeps his identity secret, but his work conquers not only the streets but also auction houses around the world.
He is considered to be one of the most valuable contemporary artists.

Banksy’s works travel around the world, both online, through millions of social networking opportunities, and in real life, in the form of exhibitions, most of which are not authorised by the British artist because of his anonymous status.
However, they continue to enjoy great popularity and are considered a success anywhere.

It presents over 100 works, original exhibits but also works in the form of photographs, sculptures and many others. Moreover, some of the exhibits are reconstructed using his own technique – templates created especially for this exhibition.

Most of the work from this exhibition is available online. The photos are small in low resolution, but each of them is described and some of them are supplemented with a short film. Descriptions are in Polish and English.

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Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam

Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam

The Van Gogh Museum is located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Aesthetic and architecture this building is amazing. The interesting circular shape of the building being half glass and half cement makes it pop out tremendously.

Fortunately, the facility also opened its virtual doors. In museum is the world's largest collection of works by the famous painter Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890). Famous painter only sold one painting, which was purchased by his brother. Now his works are worth tens of millions of dollars. He painted 38 self-portraits, about 900 paintings in total, in just 10 years. Which means he painted a new painting roughly every 4 days!

The permanent collection includes over 200 paintings by Vincent van Gogh, 500 drawings and more than 750 letters that the painter wrote to his brother and friends. The collection is spread over several floors on which we can also walk virtually. The museum also presents exhibitions on various subjects from 19th-century art history.

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