Rome's Civic Museums land on Google Art Project and offer as many as 12 virtual tours

The Civic Museum System of Roma Capitale Assessorato alla Crescita Culturale - Sovrintendenza Capitolina ai Beni Culturali joins with 15 museum venues the platform developed by the Google Cultural Institute to promote the world’s most important museums. On www.google.com/artproject you can already find 12 virtual tours through Street View and 15 photo galleries, for a total of 800 images, which collect the most significant works of the individual museum collections in Rome. An immense heritage that can be used by students, tourists and the simply curious, eager to navigate among the masterpieces of Roman museums, but also to discover their most hidden treasures.

In addition to Garofalo’s Annunciation from the Capitoline Museums, 7 works have been photographed and uploaded online in gigapixels giving the possibility to observe in very high definition (with about 7 billion pixels available) details impossible to see with the naked eye: the gifts offered by the deceased represented in the long hieroglyphic inscription in the Stele of the Dignitary Nefer(Giovanni Barracco Museum of Ancient Sculpture); the color fragments on the tesserae of the Mosaic with hunting scenes from Santa Bibiana(Centrale Montemartini); the faces of the spectators and the fantastic costumes for the Carousel at Palazzo Barberini in honor of Christina of Sweden(Museum of Rome); the details of the dress and jewelry worn by Elisa Bonaparte Baciocchi with her daughter Napoleona Elisa(Napoleonic Museum); the fiery brushstrokes of red in Scipio’s Cardinal Decano; the skeptical, participatory gaze of Alberto Moravia in Guttuso’s portrait(Casa Museo Alberto Moravia); and, finally, the petrified hues of de Chirico ’s oil painting Mysterious Archaeologists(Museo Carlo Bilotti).

The dying Galata or the paintings by Guercino, Caravaggio and Rubens at the Capitoline Museums are now joined by ancient sculptures housed at the Centrale Montemartini; masterpieces by Mafai, Afro and Balla at the Galleria d’ Modern Art of Roma Capitale; artifacts dating back to the Augustan, Flavian and Trajan era from the Mercati di Traiano; works by de Chirico, the Warhol and Rivers from the Bilotti Museum; the model of Rome from the Museo della Civiltà Romana; the works of Caffi and Batoni from the Museum of Rome; and, again, the Egyptian, Cypriot, Greek, and Roman art artifacts and precious Assyrian slabs from the Barracco Museum; and the works of art and memorabilia related to the Bonaparte family from the Napoleonic Museum; marbles, sketches and studies from the Museo Canonica and, finally, the works housed by the Villa Torlonia Museums, Casa Moravia, Museo delle Mura, Museo dell’Ara Pacis and Museo di Roma in Trastevere.

In addition, it is possible to virtually visit the halls of 12 museums in the system thanks to Street View technology that allows you to move 360 degrees and get closer to the works, delving into them with detail cards.

You can find the full list of Civic Museums featured on the Google Art Project by clicking here.

Rome's Civic Museums land on Google Art Project and offer as many as 12 virtual tours

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