Confined because of the coronavirus? Google offers online museums

Text by: Sophie Torlotin Follow

All the museums are closed and yet you would need to change your ideas in contact with works of art? Do you think it's impossible? Think again. Visiting art centers without leaving home is possible thanks to the Internet and dedicated platforms.

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Have you always dreamed of seeing the Rosetta Stone, preserved in London at the British museum? A dinosaur skeleton from the Washington Museum of Natural History? Or the Ishtar Gate of Babylon, which can be found at the Bergamo Museum in Berlin? This is possible thanks to the virtual visits available for several years on the Internet.

The giant Google launched its Googleartproject platform nine years ago, in collaboration with dozens of institutions around the world: Palace of Versailles, MoMa in New York, Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and Ermitage in St Petersburg.

Several thousand works have been photographed and are accessible in one click, with the possibility of zooming or turning around.

You can choose visits by country, artists, artistic movements, supports.

As in a museum, the visit allows happy discoveries at random from navigation. For example, this tab dedicated to contemporary African art in Brazil. The opportunity to admire the pictures of the Senegalese Omar Victor Diop, kept in Belo Horizonte, without moving from his chair…

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