Vatican Museums open doors wider with mobile-friendly website
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IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- In an effort to share its masterpieceswith even more people around the world, the Vatican Museums has established aYouTube channel and revamped its website to offer high-resolution images andmobile-friendly information.The "Musei Vaticani" YouTube channel listsshort visual "tours" of some of its collections along with a handfulof promotional videos highlighting specially tailored tours and services offeredon-site, including signingguides for the deaf or hard-of-hearing.Its website, museivaticani.va, has been completelyrevamped to be compatible with all platforms and devices in order to extend itsreach to even "remote corners of the earth," said Barbara Jatta, the museums' new director, saidat a Vatican news conference Jan. 23.The site, offered in five languages, features a sleekerdesign, simpler texts and faster navigation, Jatta said. Links to pages canalso be shared via Twitter, Facebook or email.The website provides infor...
IMAGE: CNS/Paul Haring
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- In an effort to share its masterpieces
with even more people around the world, the Vatican Museums has established a
YouTube channel and revamped its website to offer high-resolution images and
mobile-friendly information.
The "Musei Vaticani" YouTube channel lists
short visual "tours" of some of its collections along with a handful
of promotional videos highlighting specially tailored tours and services offered
on-site, including signing
guides for the deaf or hard-of-hearing.
Its website, museivaticani.va, has been completely
revamped to be compatible with all platforms and devices in order to extend its
reach to even "remote corners of the earth," said Barbara Jatta, the museums' new director, said
at a Vatican news conference Jan. 23.
The site, offered in five languages, features a sleeker
design, simpler texts and faster navigation, Jatta said. Links to pages can
also be shared via Twitter, Facebook or email.
The website provides information about booking visits and
purchasing tickets to the museums, the Vatican Gardens, the "Via
Triumphalis" necropolis under the Vatican hill and the pontifical villas
at Castel Gandolfo, south of Rome.
For now, the site showcases a little more than 3,000
high-resolution photographs of masterpieces in its collections. The "ideal"
plan, Jatta said, is to complete within one year the addition of photographs of
all 20,000 objects currently on public display and then begin working on adding
images of all art objects in storage, for a total of more than 200,000 works of
art.
The site also allows the
public to consult and search an online catalogue of some of the museums'
paintings, sculptures and other art objects. While the museums already had a
registry of their entire inventory, migrating everything to the
public-accessible database is still a work-in-progress, Jatta said.
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