Africa Is a Country

Google's Art Project

Africa Is a Country Podcast
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Google's Art Project

By
Tom Devriendt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKPeN3ZNCOE

Google’s new Art Project makes use of the street-view technology to take us by the hand through some of the better known museums around the world. There’s the Tate Britain and The National Gallery in London, the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg, the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, the Uffizi in Florence. There’s Prague, Berlin, Washington DC, Madrid, Amsterdam… Marvelous. The Museum of Marrakech, The National Museum in Lagos and The Nairobi National Museum? The museums in Cairo or Johannesburg? Not just yet. Street View works fine in Durban, Johannesburg and Cape Town, so it can’t be too hard to pay a visit to one of their museums, can it? Which ones do we want to see included?

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