Monday, January 26, 2009

Museum mashup

Jason from our IT department showed me an excellent example of a mashup. The Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid Spain is using the Google Earth data and tools to promote its masterpieces.

"The Prado Museum has become the first art gallery in the world to provide access to and navigation of its collection in Google Earth. Using the advanced features of Google Earth art historians, students and tourists everywhere can zoom in on and explore the finer details of the artist's brushwork that can be easily missed at first glance." Quote from the Museo's website.

Jason suggested that we could do this with our own library treasures.

1 comment:

slnsw_learning_2.0 said...

Wow - this mashup is great. Thanks for highlighting it,

Ellen (PLS)