Explore museums and great works of art in the Google Art Project
Dive into brushstroke-level detail: On top of the 1,000+ other images, each of the 17 museums selected one artwork to be photographed in extraordinary detail using super high resolution or “gigapixel” photo-capturing technology. Each of these images contains around 7 billion pixels- ( Read more... )

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Lego Antikythera Mechanism
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I thought this was pretty cool...


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