INTERNET PLUS ART
Adigitalized Chinese craft exhibition titled The Art of Chinese Crafts went online on Google’s cultural exhibition website on Wednesday
Partnering with six traditional Chinese art organizations including the t e ChinaC a Intangibleta gb e Heritagee tage Industrydust y Alliance and the China Paper Cutting Museum, the online exhibition offers 38 exhibits featuring collections of videos and pictures of more than 1,800 Chinese handcrafts and artworks such as silver accessories from the Miao ethnic minority, peach stone carvings and hand- made silk tapestries.
By clicking onto The Art of Chinese Crafts link on the Google Cultural Institute site, viewers can browse through articles and albums organized under different themes, and zoom in on individual artworks to check out each detail. Additionally viewers can take virtual tours of partnered museums with the help of Google Maps.
According to project manager Simon Rein Rein, the exhibition seeks to “preserve Chinese national treasures with the help of digital technology and enable Internet users around the globe to read
the stories behind them.”