Wednesday, June 25, 2003
Vatican puts its treasures on the Web
Vatican City- The Sistine Chapel is now online.
The Vatican put its enormous art collection on the Web yester day, launching a new site for the Vatican Museums that it hopes will attract more tourists while also disseminating the church's message around the globe. The site, at http://mv.vatican.va , allows visitors to take a vir tual-reality tour of some of the dozen museums and galleries that make up the Vatican collec tion, zooming in on a frescoed panel in the Raphael Rooms or viewing Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel with a three-dimensional video.
Now visitors can view entire galleries of the Egyptian and Etruscan museums, the Pinaco teca painting gallery, the Ra phael Rooms and the Sistine Chapel - part of a collection that the U.N. agency, UNESCO, has recognized for its place in the world's cultural patrimony.
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