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London: New National Gallery Website

News release: “The re-launched www.nationalgallery.org.uk is the first major gallery website to offer a full-screen zoom facility for its entire collection. Users can now examine every National Gallery masterpiece in outstanding detail, effortlessly sweep across digital canvases and zoom into minute details of their choosing. Also for the first time, users can now check the up-to-date locations of their favorite works of art prior to visiting. Using the Gallery’s own collection database, the new website updates the layout of the collection twice daily. Users can explore the paintings room-by-room using an interactive floorplan, allowing them to follow the narrative of the hang, as well as access new research material for specific works of art…For the best visual experience, the site has been designed to take advantage of the new generation of larger computer screens. Visitors can now access over 12,000 images, 18 hours of audio and at least 200 videos. The site has also been optimised to enable visitors to find specific content with greater ease through search engines like Google, including every painting in the collection.”

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