Due to many, if not all, cultural activities being suspended around the country, it has been difficult for people to find entertainment outside of the usual sources, such as television and the internet. However, with such limitations, new opportunities arise for cultural spaces to spread its art pieces around the world.
Some museums and famous tourist attractions around the world offer virtual tours with 360º technology through the capture of satellite images, but everything has become even more realistic and accessible with the partnership with Google. They have developed a specific culture and art platform, Arts & Culture, formerly titles Google art project, which uses street view technology to provide free virtual tours to art galleries around the world. In addition, the site also provides information on art history, compiles works by famous artists and divides the collections in a thematic way.
THE GUIDE brings to you more examples of the museums and tourist attractions that provide online tours by the means of this platform:
Tour 13, Paris:
The Tour 13 (Tower 13) was originally a 10-story residential building used in a low-income housing project and scheduled to be demolished in 2014. Mehdi Ben Cheikh, a Tunisian-born art teacher and founder of the Galerie Itinerrance, obtained the rights for an art exhibition in the tower as part of a collaboration with Jérôme Coumet, the mayor of the 13th arrondissement of Paris, to “invite well known urban artists to create a collective open air museum.” Cheikh spent six months gathering 80 street artists from 18 countries to decorate the interior and exterior of the building. Notable artists who worked on Tower 13 include EL Seed, A1one, Guy Denning, C215, 108, and Add Fuel. The online tour has a floor selection on the right side of the screen, use it to see more of the tower’s floors.
Machu Picchu, Peru:
A UNESCO World Heritage site and one of the new seven wonders of the world, the city of Machu Picchu is a 15th-century Inca citadel, located in the Eastern Cordillera of southern Peru, on a 2,430-metre mountain ridge. It is located in the Cusco Region, Urubamba Province, Machupicchu District, above the Sacred Valley, which is 80 kilometres (50 mi) northwest of Cuzco. The Urubamba River flows past it, cutting through the Cordillera and creating a canyon with a tropical mountain climate. Often mistakenly referred to as the “Lost City of the Incas”, it is the most familiar icon of Inca civilization. The Incas built the estate around 1450 but abandoned it a century later at the time of the Spanish conquest.
Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro:
The Museu Nacional de Belas Artes (National Museum of Fine Arts) is a museum located in the city of Rio de Janeiro, it has the biggest archive of art from the 19th century in Brazil, making it one of the country’s most important museums. The museum’s collection started with the set of works of art brought by the Portuguese emperor Dom João VI, in 1808, and was expanded throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries with the incorporation of the collection of the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes (National School of Fine Arts) and other acquisitions, and today it has about 15,000 pieces, including paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints by Brazilian and foreign artists, as well as a collection of decorative art, furniture, folk art and a set of African art pieces. The tour given by Google Arts and Culture does not feature the street view technology, however it does offer a 360° view of many spots around the museum.
You can find them at: https://artsandculture.google.com/
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Atrações turísticas históricas que você pode visitar em casa através do street view
Due to many, if not all, cultural activities being suspended around the country, it has been difficult for people to find entertainment outside of the usual sources, such as television and the internet. However, with such limitations, new opportunities arise for cultural spaces to spread its art pieces around the world.
Some museums and famous tourist attractions around the world offer virtual tours with 360º technology through the capture of satellite images, but everything has become even more realistic and accessible with the partnership with Google. They have developed a specific culture and art platform, Arts & Culture, formerly titles Google art project, which uses street view technology to provide free virtual tours to art galleries around the world. In addition, the site also provides information on art history, compiles works by famous artists and divides the collections in a thematic way.
THE GUIDE brings to you more examples of the museums and tourist attractions that provide online tours by the means of this platform:
Tour 13, Paris:
A Tour 13 (Torre 13) era originalmente um edifício residencial de 10 andares usado em um conjunto habitacional de baixa renda e programado para ser demolido em 2014. Mehdi Ben Cheikh, um professor de arte nascido na Tunísia e fundador da Galerie Itinerrance, obteve o direitos de uma exposição de arte na torre, como parte de uma colaboração com Jérôme Coumet, prefeito do 13º arrondissement de Paris, para “convidar artistas urbanos conhecidos a criar um museu coletivo ao ar livre”. Cheikh passou seis meses reunindo 80 artistas de rua de 18 países para decorar o interior e o exterior do edifício. Artistas notáveis que trabalharam na Torre 13 incluem EL Seed, A1one, Guy Denning, C215, 108 e Add Fuel. O tour on-line tem uma seleção de andares no lado direito da tela, use-a para ver mais andares da torre.
Machu Picchu, Peru:
Patrimônio Mundial da UNESCO e uma das sete novas maravilhas do mundo, a cidade de Machu Picchu é uma cidadela inca do século XV, localizada na Cordilheira Oriental do sul do Peru, em uma cordilheira de 2.430 metros. Está localizado na região de Cusco, província de Urubamba, distrito de Machupicchu, acima do Vale Sagrado, que fica a 80 quilômetros (50 milhas) a noroeste de Cuzco. O rio Urubamba passa por ele, atravessando a Cordilheira e criando um desfiladeiro com clima tropical nas montanhas. Muitas vezes referida erroneamente como a “Cidade Perdida dos Incas”, é o ícone mais familiar da civilização Inca. Os incas construíram a propriedade por volta de 1450, mas a abandonaram um século depois na época da conquista espanhola.
Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro:
O Museu Nacional de Belas Artes (Museu Nacional de Belas Artes) é um museu localizado na cidade do Rio de Janeiro, possui o maior arquivo de arte do século XIX no Brasil, tornando-o um dos museus mais importantes do país. A coleção do museu começou com o conjunto de obras de arte trazidas pelo imperador português Dom João VI, em 1808, e foi ampliada ao longo dos séculos XIX e XX, com a incorporação da coleção da Escola Nacional de Belas Artes. Belas Artes) e outras aquisições, e hoje possui cerca de 15.000 peças, incluindo pinturas, esculturas, desenhos e gravuras de artistas brasileiros e estrangeiros, além de uma coleção de arte decorativa, móveis, arte folclórica e um conjunto de obras de arte africanas. O passeio realizado pelo Google Arts and Culture não apresenta a tecnologia Street View, no entanto, oferece uma visão de 360 ° de muitos pontos do museu.
