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Visit the Prado Museum from your computer
Okay, people, Super Budget Travel time.
You may not get that great museum smell, and you won't see Madrid out the windows, but you can now see hi res images of 14 of the artworks at the Prado Museum (Museo Nacional del Prado) on Google Earth. You can even see brushstrokes.
Click here to try it. The video above shows you how they did it and how it all works.
Kudos to the Prado for making their art so available. Even if you bought a big coffee table book of these works, you wouldn't see detail this fine. This is an all-new idea.
The masterpieces the Prado allowed Google Earth to photograph include paintings by Rembrandt, Raphael, and El Greco. See them all really close without leaving your desk.
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