NEW ORLEANS – The Google Cultural Institute announced a partnership with the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) today, which will make a portion of NOMA’s permanent art collection available online to a global audience.
Expected to attend today’s 10:00 a.m. press conference at 1 Collins Diboll Circle in City Park were Scott Hutcheson, Advisor to the Mayor for Cultural Economy, Lucy Schwartz, Program Manager, Google Cultural Institute and Susan M. Taylor, Director, The Montine McDaniel Freeman, NOMA.
Using a combination of various Google technologies and expert information provided by its partners, the Google Cultural Institute has created a unique online art and cultural experience. Users can explore a wide range of artworks at brushstroke level detail, take a virtual tour of artifacts and even build their own collections to share. The main goal is to help make historical and cultural material accessible to more people via the Internet and by doing so, inspire fans to come experience more in person.
The Cultural Institute began in 2011.
The New Orleans Museum of Art, founded in 1910 by Isaac Delgado, houses nearly 40,000 works of art encompassing 5,000 years of world art. Works from the permanent collection, along with continuously changing special exhibitions, are on view in the museum’s 46 galleries Fridays from 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.; Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.; Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Sundays from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The adjoining Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden features work by over 60 artists, including several of the 20th century’s master sculptors. The Sculpture Garden is open seven days a week: 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
The New Orleans Museum of Art and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden are fully accessible to handicapped visitors and wheelchairs are available from the front desk.
Wednesdays are free admission days for Louisiana residents, courtesy of The Helis Foundation. (May not include special exhibitions.) Teenagers (ages 13-19) receive free admission every day through the end of 2016, courtesy of The Helis Foundation.
