How Can We Experience Art From Centuries Ago?

Imagine holding a painting that is 400 years old. It might look dull because the colors have faded or it is dirty. But we can now clean it and put it on screens so you can see every brush stroke clearly. This is how we let new people see old art. We use cameras to take high quality pictures and computers to fix the colors. Then, we show these pictures in museums and on your tablet. You get to see what the artist saw a long time ago.

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  1. You wear special glasses to see a dinosaur skeleton moving.
  2. A dusty old painting looks bright again after being cleaned.
  3. You point your phone at a statue to see its original colors.

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