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Google extends Art Project scheme
In a bid to vastly expand its Art Project, search engine giant Google has signed new partnerships with 151 organisation in 40 different nations.
The organisation said it also intends to expand the scope of the artistic formats the scheme covers, with street art, photography and sculpture now included along with paintings, and instantly viewable through simple online navigation.
Art Project users can view over 30,000 objects in high resolution, building on the 1,000 images which the initial version offered.
Dulwich Picture Gallery, the Royal Collection, and the Victoria and Albert Museum are among the latest UK partners to team up with Google on the Art Project.
The National Gallery and Tate Britain have also pledged their support to the initiative.
Dr Nicholas Penny, director of the National Gallery, said: 'The Google Art Project has enabled museums to showcase some of their greatest and most iconic works of art using Google's "street view" technology.
'In addition, Holbein's Ambassadors, one of the best-known paintings from the National Gallery in London has been singled out from the collection to be viewed in extraordinarily high resolution. Viewers will see details and explore the painting in a way that hasn't been possible before.'
