Information technology and museums: The Prado Museum has digitized and posted on the Web more than a third of exhibits

The Madrid Prado Museum has digitized and posted to the Internet more than a third of its collection - 11 thousand works. Total the collection of the Prado kept about 30 thousand works of art, exhibited less than a thousand in the permanent exhibition.

The exhibits, presented in an online archive, were provided with an audio guide and video with sign language. The collection of images can be browsed by themes - such as "The Saints", "Old Testament", "Royal Portrait". "Masterpieces". It is available an alphabetical index of the names of artists and compilation. In the "Top Artists" are presented Bosch, Durer, Raphael, Titian, El Greco, Rubens, Velazquez, Rembrandt and Goya. To listen to the annotation is possible only in Spanish.