Set up a Google Art Project gallery

Curate your own virtual gallery and fill it with paintings and other works of art from some of the finest collections around the world

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The most important art gallery is the one you carry around with you - in your head, in postcards, in books, or conversations. There are many ways to cultivate such a musée imaginaire of the art you really love. One of the most convenient and aesthetically stunning is Google Art Project, a bold venture that offers an ever-growing digital archive of the worlds greatest art, which you can browse wherever you are and out of which you can assemble your own personal gallery online, a fantasy collection of your favourite art.

Many of the worlds finest museums cooperate with the project, and no wonder. The internet is loaded with images of art of hugely varying qualities, many simply scanned out of old art books. It would be nice if there were other similar projects out there but Google has, characteristically, monopolised this one, and set a gold standard for art reproductions online.

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