This is pretty sweet and I'm not big into art. A team at google has spent the last 18 months setting up virtual tours of 17 different art museums around the world. They also created one "gixapixel" image of the prized piece at each museum.

http://www.googleartproject.com/

pretty neat

Nice stuff.

Saw it this morning but I have been wasting my time here instead of checking it out.