THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE ART AND DIGITAL WORLD THROUGH AN ONLINE PLATFORM

Google Arts and Culture is an impressive website and mobile application that enables art lovers to see their favorite artworks and collections in high-resolution and from the comfort of their home.

As we live in the digital era and technology is developed at high rates, art lovers have the privilege to enjoy online from the comfort of their couch thousands of paintings, sculptures and installations through Google arts and culture which is an online platform and there is also as a mobile application that enables the public to walk through the halls of well known museums around the world and view artworks, collections and galleries in high resolution.

Google arts and culture was initially released on February, 1 2011 and since then more and more art museums worldwide become virtual and offer a unique experience with spectacular virtual tours. Each visitor has the opportunity to see a number of masterpieces in awesome resolution and with incredible detail, lighting and scale. Below are the top 10 worth visiting virtual museums in the world.

One of the most impressive virtual museums is the Vatican Museum in Rome, where you can admire a series of 360-degree images including Michelangelo's ceiling in the Sistine Chapel and other iconic exhibits and complex murals and tapestries. One more admirable virtual gallery is supported through the Ufizi Gallery in Florence that has a big number of works of Renaissance art and just with a click you can get lost in the digital world of art through thoughtfully curated tours. Also, the Guggenheim Museum in New York with priceless pieces of artworks from Picasso, Kandinsky and Miro. Additionally, if you want to discover and learn something new about modern art, MOMA is the right place where you can explore halls of this Manhattans museum as if you were really there. Furthermore, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam with an interactive virtual tour to a vast collection of famous artworks of Vermeer, Rembrandt and other Dutch masters and the Van Gogh Museum that you should absolutely visit if you are a fan of this tragic and ingenious painter and enjoy a large collection of his colorful masterpieces.

Moreover, the Musee d'Orsay in Paris with online exhibitions of the masterworks of Cezanne, Monet and other French masters and the Dali theater-museum located in the town of Figueres in Catalonia, Spain where you can enjoy a virtual walk around to the artworks of Salvador Dali. Also, The Natural History Museum in London offers an incredible walking tour of all its remarkable exhibits including dinosaurs, the hall of mammals, insect zoo etc. Finally, the most favorite and special museum for me is the Frida Kahlo Museum in Mexico. If you are a fervent fan of Frida Kahlo like me then you have the chance to visit the blue house which is the former house of Frida Kahlo straight from your sofa. So it's a fact you have now the opportunity to enjoy all these exceptional museums worldwide very easy and in an innovative and entertaining way through this google art project which was a very fruitful initiative to join the digital with the art world.