As part of their ongoing projects with ‘Street View’, the more recent addition to Google Maps, Google have now teamed up with leading galleries across the world to bring art into peoples homes. With Art Projects you can explore galleries and museums using their Street View technology, view artworks in high resolution and even create your own collection from the pieces available to share with friends and family. They describe it on the website as –

A unique collaboration with some of the world’s most acclaimed art museums to enable people to discover and view more than a thousand artworks online in extraordinary detail.

With a list including The Museum of Modern Art (NYC), The National Gallery (London), Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam), State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow) and Tate Britain (London), to name but a few, some of the best known collections are now accessible right from your sofa!

You can view the full Art Project here