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El Prado Museum – Virtual Tour

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Re: El Prado Museum – Virtual Tour

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Post by nailer »

mholm wrote: post #30
cbdumas wrote: post #16

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.

I'd recommend Valencia in addition to Madrid. I can't say I enjoyed Barcelona that much, it felt too touristy. Valencia had a wonderful balance of tourism, low prices, food, and waterfront.

Honestly, they’re all great. Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Seville and Bilbao.

I had almost no idea about Spain before I moved to Europe and soon realised that it is a friendly place with amazing reasonably priced food and some of the most amazing artwork. Every new city has these qualities and adds its own stories and beautiful architecture.

Also Spain is to gin and tonic what New York is to pizza and Australia/New Zealand are to coffee: they did not invent it, but they certainly perfected it. a giant fish bowl of gin mare and good tonic water filled with ice and maybe some rosemary for scent.

Re: El Prado Museum – Virtual Tour

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Post by rmason »

cbdumas wrote: post #16

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.

I recommend Madrid as well. I still haven't made it to Barcelona but I did visit the Spanish Riviera also known as the Costa del Sol. I stayed in Torremolinos where a lot of English winter and there were a lot of American sailors in the bars as well. Its a short distance to Malaga which was interesting.

Also went West and caught a boat to Tangiers in Morocco for a day trip. It was my first time experiencing culture shock. Tangiers was so different from either America or Europe. I made friends with two Danish soldiers and the three of us explored the Casbah together. It was also the first (and last!) time that I ate a sheep's eyeball! Little kids everywhere were begging for money. I understood perfectly why they spoke to me in English. But when they found out my friends were from Denmark they switched to speaking perfect Danish! These kids knew a smattering of a dozen languages or more.

Re: El Prado Museum – Virtual Tour

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Post by chatmasta »

thomastjeffery wrote: post #9

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…

There’s a museum in Rotterdam called The Depot that always has all its works on exhibit and available to the public.

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Post by thomastjeffery »

chatmasta wrote: post #34
thomastjeffery wrote: post #9

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…

There’s a museum in Rotterdam called The Depot that always has all its works on exhibit and available to the public.

From Wikipedia:

> The entire deposit collection of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (more than 151,000 objects housed together, arranged in fourteen storage compartments with five different climates) is stored here and is publicly accessible, on a total floor area of 15,541 m2.

That's incredible.

Re: El Prado Museum – Virtual Tour

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Post by singleshot_ »

cbdumas wrote: post #16

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.

Hot in the summer. Killer nightlife. It will not take a tourist long to figure out the point of siesta.

Re: El Prado Museum – Virtual Tour

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Post by singleshot_ »

telesilla wrote: post #26
severino wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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?

There are still tourists who for some weird reason come in the worst heat. Bring a hat.

Also sleep during most of the afternoon. Everything is open late.

Re: El Prado Museum – Virtual Tour

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Post by tmilard »

I may be biaised but I believe this "tour" is not good. Not immersive enough. Just not really something we want as client. - The moving/walking part is just bad. Even Matterport does much better with its technology.

- The zooming-on-painting part is good though.

The point : I am building a much more immersive technology . Here is an small example. https://free-visit.net/fr/demo01

If you like this visit, and if you know a museum who needs my immersive technology, please send me a mail, I would be glad : thierry.milard@gmail.com

Re: El Prado Museum – Virtual Tour

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Post by chatmasta »

thomastjeffery wrote: post #35
chatmasta wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There’s a museum in Rotterdam called The Depot that always has all its works on exhibit and available to the public.

From Wikipedia: > The entire deposit collection of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (more than 151,000 objects housed together, arranged in fourteen storage compartments with five different climates) is stored here and is publicly accessible, on a total floor area of 15,541 m2. That's incredible.

You should probably have a tour guide on your first time there. Personally I was a bit confused which of the climate-controlled rooms I was actually allowed to enter (the doors all look like highly secure entrypoints). So I felt like I missed out on some exhibits and only scratched the surface of what they had on display (vs. in a filing cabinet).

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rmason wrote: post #32
cbdumas wrote: post #16

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.

I recommend Madrid as well. I still haven't made it to Barcelona but I did visit the Spanish Riviera also known as the Costa del Sol. I stayed in Torremolinos where a lot of English winter and there were a lot of American sailors in the bars as well. Its a short distance to Malaga which was interesting. Also went West and caught a boat to Tangiers in Morocco for a day trip. It was my first time experiencing culture s…

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