How to visit the museums of the world without leaving home

Yes, teleportation exists. It's possible to be in a room of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, in front of
The starry Night of
Vincent Van Gogh and the next moment, on the other side of the Atlantic, visiting the British Museum in London and examining every detail of his impressive collection of universal art. All this for free and simply by pressing a button or touching the screen of the mobile phone.

Of course, nothing beats the experience of walking in the circular corridors of the Guggenheim in New York, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, but … "Imagine this access for a boy from Bombay who studies architecture and did not have the opportunity to visit the museum, "says Amit Sood, a young engineer born in this city of India, who began ten years ago the titanic task of creating
a museum of museums to democratize access to art and culture.

This was the origin of
Google Arts & Culture, a web platform that brings together the legacy of more than 1,800 cultural institutions from 80 countries and includes 360-degree virtual tours. One of the main tools available online to visit museums around the world without having to leave his home today, during the celebration of the International Museum Day.

"Seeing the real work is always better," says Sood many times, and for that, many opportunities will arise across the country today.
National museums will promote special activities and are accessible
with free admission to those of Buenos Aires.

To plan a visit to these, or for those who can not or do not want to leave their home, the interactive site
THE NATION Museums offers a panorama of essential works, relating to the permanent collections of more than a dozen institutions of the city.

Many of them include virtual tours on their own sites. The
Malba, the
National Museum of Fine Arts and
Amalita collection have their collections available online, and the Fine Arts and the
The Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires has updated its web pages in recent months to adapt to the new era.

This is what the Spanish does very well
Prado Museum in all its virtual platforms. While he's on his page, he offers
create and share the tours themselves for nearly 4,900 paintings, it also stands out by its
videos on YouTube and their
messages on Instagram.

Even Street Art fans, who turn the world's major capitals into open-air museums, have their place in cyberspace: Google Arts & Culture includes
archives of works and stories of its creators, while pages such as
graffitimundo.com and
buenosairesstreetart.com offers real and virtual visits to the streets of Buenos Aires.

"How could the borderless world function if we could organize art and culture?" Asks Sood in his TED talk, where he enthusiastically refers to a "Big Bang Cultural". His own story is an example: he was employed by Google until he decided to bet on his idea of ​​creating a "Museum of Museums".

He took advantage of the so-called "20% project", a possibility offered by Google to its employees to invest 20% of their working time in jobs independent of their main responsibilities. Eighteen months later, he announced in a TED conference the birth of his artistic project, which would continue to grow until today.

Among other free tools, the platform allows
360º virtual tours through more than 3,000 museums and exhibitions. Among them there is a
Special collection made up of 130 museums in Latin America, among which the Silver Museum and the Museum of Tiger Art, among others of Argentina. It is also possible to create your own virtual collection with the most valuable works of art of humanity, which can be shared by mail or on social networks.

Latin American art occupies a prominent place in this overwhelming universal archive. Last year, from Mexico, Google launched
Faces of Frida, the
first virtual retrospective of a 20th century artist. A production of 800 pieces that required nearly two years of work and the collaboration of 33 institutions from seven countries so that the world could access the legacy of
Frida Kahlo, an icon of diversity. From this site it is even possible to access the intimacy of the famous
Blue House
shared with Diego Rivera.

Attached to bed for much of her life, during which she underwent 35 operations, Frida would surely have loved the freedom that new technologies offer today.