The internet provides plenty of opportunities to virtually visit places of historical, cultural and/or artistic relevance; often the tours and supporting materials provided are not merely very well curated and produced, but also engaging and even fun.
(more…)Kunstmatrix is in fact a software bundle intending to support the entire virtual representation of practising artists; this includes the tools Art.Depot, Art.Spaces, Art.Office, and Art.Augmented.
(more…)Artsteps is a a web-based environment – a little like Sketchup – that allows to create virtual art galleries in lifelike 3D spaces. Users may model complex actual or virtual exhibition spaces including specific colours and surface textures, and populate them with digital artefacts (images, 3D objects, videos and sound) to curate realistic virtual exhibitions.
(more…)The British Museum in London offers virtual tours through extensive parts of its collections filtered by regions and/or themes (e.g. Art & Design, Living & Dying etc.).
(more…)Using its own Google Street View technology, and its vast databases of scanned artworks, books, artefacts Google offers a very broad and well curated choice of sophisticatedly produced virtual museum tours incl. also teaching and learning activities, teaching resources etc. through Google Arts and Culture.
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