More than 3 thousand pieces, such as Pain\u00e9is de S\u00e3o Vicente, that are the major scanning made by Google, “with more than 140 billion pixels”, became available online in a partnership with the Sate.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWe are the first generation that is capable of fully conserving its heritage”, said Bernardo Correia, Google’s director for Portugal.\u00a0 The statement was made on the old Coches museum, on Lisbon, a launching event of more than 3 thousand workarts part of the cultural Portuguese patrimony scanned by Google Arts & Culture. This work has been developed since 2017 in a partnership between the Portuguese State and the amerian company.<\/p>\n
The Google tool, that is also available in a app for smartphones, allows any person to access pieces of art from the whole world. \u201cTecnology and the way Google Arts work allows to preserva pices of art and to prevent accidents that happened”, stated the minister of Culture Gra\u00e7a Fonseca, that was present on the event due to the collaboration of the Ministry of Culture to materialise this inniciative.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is an extraordinary added value to our museums and to our country”, said the minister of Culture. This initiative is part of\u00a0 Simplex+, as Maria Manuel Leit\u00e3o Marques explained, the minister of the Presidency and Administrative Modernization. She refered that this governmental program “is a cultural ally\u201d, and congratulated the work done on the scanning of this heritage.<\/p>\n
Google, besides managing\u00a0 and promoting this project in a partnership with the Portuguese State, joined many Portuguese museums to, directly, allow the online access to inumerous pieces of art, even the ones that aren’t permanently exposed. According to David Santos,\u00a0subdirector of Dire\u00e7\u00e3o Geral do Patrim\u00f3nio\u00a0Cultural, this is \u201cthe major cultural digital project in Portugal”.<\/p>\n
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