"Previous online tours on the gallery's website only covered eight rooms, but now every picture room in the gallery can be explored online, offering a Vicarious Visit through the museum's bicentenary redisplay."
"The virtual experience offers two options: a full walkthrough of all the gallery rooms, or a shorter highlights tour curated by staff to recreate the feel of a whistle-stop gallery visit. The seven-room highlights route includes famous works such as Jan van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait, Johannes Vermeer's A Young Woman Standing at a Virginal, and Claude Monet's The Water-Lily Pond."
"Visitors can also zoom into selected paintings using gigapixel imagery on the Google Arts & Culture platform, allowing viewers to inspect brushstrokes and fine details that can often be difficult to see in person."
"The National Gallery says its earlier eight-room virtual tour attracted more than a million views between November 2020 and January 2021, as people sought cultural escapes from home. The expanded online tour is part of a long-running collaboration between the National Gallery and Google Arts & Culture that dates back to 2011."
The National Gallery expanded its online tour in partnership with Google Arts & Culture, enabling virtual exploration of every picture room. The experience offers two paths: a full walkthrough of all rooms or a shorter staff-curated highlights route designed to feel like a quick gallery visit. The highlights route includes major works such as Jan van Eyck’s Arnolfini Portrait, Johannes Vermeer’s A Young Woman Standing at a Virginal, and Claude Monet’s The Water-Lily Pond. Selected paintings can be zoomed using gigapixel imagery on the Google Arts & Culture platform to inspect brushstrokes and fine details. The gallery notes that earlier eight-room tours drew over a million views during the Covid lockdown period. The project builds on collaboration that began in 2011 with high-resolution digital views and 360-degree virtual tours.
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