Qatar Museums Authority to Launch Google Art Project on Tuesday

Doha, April 22 (QNA) - Qatar Museums Authority (QMA) will hold a ceremony to launch its partnership with Google on the path breaking Google Art Project on Tuesday at the Museum of Islamic Art (MIA). The project enables people to discover and view more than 30,000 artworks online in extraordinary detail including the MIA and mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art. The event will feature a conversation between our museum directors and Google Art Project leaders, allowing attendees to get a behind-the-scenes peek at the making of the project in Qatar, and why it's so important to open our culture's doors to the world. The Museum of Islamic Art and mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art are the only museum in the Middle East to keep their doors open 24/7 with the Google Art Project. Art lovers are able to explore a wide range of artworks at a brushstroke level, take a virtual tour of a museum, and even build their own collections to share from paintings, sculptures, street art, and photographs with just a few mouse clicks. The partnership between QMA and Google is part of a major global expansion of the project, which now counts 151 partners in 40 countries. (QNA)