世界最大的虚拟博物馆

Louvre To Be "World's Biggest Virtual Museum"

The Louvre Museum is working on adding its entire art collection to its website so that anyone can view its works without going to the museum in Paris.The Louvre announced that all 35,000 of its exhibits will be on view at its website. Also, around 130,000 drawings that are too fragile to show at the museum will be on view at the website. A small part of its collection, including the famous "Mona Lisa" by Leonardo da Vinci is already on the webiste. Internet Director Catherine Jaques stated, "This way the entire Louvre collection will be accessible to everyone, the plan is to make the Louvre the world's biggest virtual museum." The museum plans to have 165,000 works online by 2003.

巴黎的卢浮宫博物馆正在努力把馆内全部艺术收藏都搬上自己的网站，这样人们不用去博物馆也能欣赏到这些艺术品。卢浮宫方面宣布，所有三万五千件展品都将在网上展示，将近十三万件极易损坏而无法在博物馆展出的画作也将被放到网上供人们欣赏。目前，卢浮宫网站上已经收入了一小部分藏品，其中包括列奥那多·达·芬奇的《蒙娜丽莎》。卢浮宫的网络总监凯瑟琳·杰奎斯说：“这样一来，所有人都能欣赏到卢浮宫的全部藏品。我们的计划是使卢浮宫成为世界上最大的虚拟博物馆。”卢浮宫计划在2003年之前把十六万五千件藏品搬上网络。

Remarks：此举无疑可令世界各地艺术爱好者欢呼雀跃。不过，在艺术殿堂中品味大师手笔的享受与面对电脑屏幕端详电子图像的感觉毕竟还是有所不同的。