Internet and Culture: Virtual museum unites Johannes Vermeer’s paintings

The Mauritshuis museum in the Hague and Google Arts & Culture have launched a virtual museum, which presents artworks of the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675). The application draws on high-resolution photographs contributed by 18 different museums and private collections to create an augmented-reality exhibit of a wide span of Vermeer's work. On display are 36 paintings from 7 different countries.

“This is one of these moments when technology does something that you can never do in real life, and that’s because these paintings could never be brought together in real life,” said Emilie Gordenker, director of the Mauritshuis.