[HN Gopher] El Prado Museum - Virtual Tour
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El Prado Museum - Virtual Tour
Author : thegurus
Score : 78 points
Date : 2024-04-18 18:54 UTC (4 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.museodelprado.es)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.museodelprado.es)
| speps wrote:
| I really wish these projects, usually financed partially by
| European grants and other such schemes (aka tax payers), would
| release the raw data and let people develop their own experience
| with it.
|
| Open data from museums are the only way I can see it being
| archived for the long term benefit of society.
|
| PS: why the downvotes? It's literally written at the end but
| there's no download link anywhere...
|
| > Funded with the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRPP),
| Spain's Next Generation EU financing and according to the
| initiatives within the component C.24.I3 Digitization and
| valorization of major cultural services, included in Prado
| Training as an Inclusive experience of visit.
| dmje wrote:
| Many, many museums release their collections databases as open
| API's, and many of the artworks are licensed under open
| licenses.
|
| That's not to say they couldn't do more - but it's a very
| active area in many museums.
| andsoitis wrote:
| Do they have a VR experience too?
| mannycalavera42 wrote:
| yes, there is the cardboard button (last icon in the middle
| bottom of the screen)
| OleksiiA wrote:
| English version: https://www.museodelprado.es/en/visita-virtual-
| coleccion-202...
| Animats wrote:
| Apple has one of those tours for their museum.[1] Apple used to
| be big on that. They called it "Quicktime VR"(1998) [2] The main
| application today is real estate sales.[3]
|
| [1] https://applemuseum360.com
|
| [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickTime_VR
|
| [3]
| https://www.sothebysrealty.com/eng/sales/int/virtualtour3d-f...
| thomastjeffery wrote:
| It's cool to have a virtual tour of open gallery space, but it
| would be orders of magnitude cooler to have a virtual tour of the
| works in a museum's collection that are not on view.
|
| Most museums are only able to show a few dozen or hundred works
| in their galleries at a time, but store thousands of works in
| their collection. In an effort to accommodate this reality, many
| museums publish a freely available database of their collection.
| There isn't really a standard practice for creating, maintaining,
| and publishing these databases, so it really depends on each
| museum's collections team to do that work; and it will always be
| a relatively low priority. Digital exhibitions could radically
| change that.
| mannycalavera42 wrote:
| I LOVE this I would pay for being able to rent to audioguide for
| a couple of days (similarly to how you can rent the audioguide
| during the in person visit)
| totalview wrote:
| I wonder what camera sensor was used to produce this. A DSLR on a
| pano/360 rig? Or something purpose built like a Weiss AG Civetta
| 230MP 360 scanning camera.
| fastaguy88 wrote:
| I think in the intro they show a Nikon on a motorized panning
| head.
| bahmboo wrote:
| They also have x-rays of the individual works. Those seem to
| have been done in a separate process from the visible photos.
| Click on the camera icon next to a piece and there is then an
| additional selection for x-ray view.
| endisneigh wrote:
| I'm curious how you produce this? How could I make this for my
| house or neighborhood?
|
| Things like matterport seem too proprietary. This particular one
| seems to be a far higher quality as well.
|
| I'm curious what rig they used.
| speps wrote:
| If you look at the floor it says "Second Canvas(tm)" which is
| the company behind it it seems: https://www.secondcanvas.net/
| cbdumas wrote:
| For anyone planning a visit to Spain, I can't recommend Madrid
| highly enough. I wasn't sure what to expect from the city, but it
| might be my favorite I've ever been to. Madrid is beautiful,
| clean, walkable, and very welcoming. The food was all amazing and
| it seemed like we never had to wait for a table. I had a great
| time in Barcelona, but I'd recommend Madrid over Barcelona in a
| heartbeat.
| lionkor wrote:
| Which time of year would you recommend?
| danieldisu wrote:
| March - early June or Mid September - November
|
| Avoid July and August, horrible heat and most people have
| left the city
| severino wrote:
| > Avoid July and August, horrible heat and most people have
| left the city
|
| You mean it's bad that you don't have to wait in lines or
| get into crowded spaces?
| telesilla wrote:
| There are still tourists who for some weird reason come
| in the worst heat. Bring a hat.
| tgv wrote:
| Spring or autumn. Summer is simply too hot.
|
| I preferred it over Barcelona, too.
| inferiorhuman wrote:
| I preferred Madrid as well, however as far as museums go I
| would make a trip to Barcelona just for MACBA.
| aerhardt wrote:
| I'm glad more and more people are realizing. Preferring it over
| Barcelona is very personal; I completely get people who prefer
| a coastal city as beautiful as the Ciudad Condal. But Madrid
| was underrated for ages. It's sunny, beautiful, safe, fun,
| imperial. Luckily it's been booming for a while now.
| nextos wrote:
| I also prefer Madrid, which I believe is really under-rated,
| but Barcelona is superb as well.
|
| Sadly, Barcelona is a bit too hyped and gentrified. It suffers
| from the same kind of issues SF has.
|
| Both are great in terms of access to an inexpensive talent
| pool.
| fuzzbazz wrote:
| Cool, but it could be better if some of the paintings didn't have
| so much light reflected from the roof, like in room 12. Maybe the
| camera should have been higher?
| xnx wrote:
| Google Arts & Culture has hundreds of excellent 360 museum (and
| other cultural site) tours here:
| https://artsandculture.google.com/
|
| Separately, you can also zoom in to many artworks with extreme
| detail (e.g. 1000+ dpi).
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