Google Arts & Culture
The Fortuny Museum’s masterpieces are available online
Thanks to the collaboration between the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia and the Google Cultural Institute, the Fortuny Museum is now on Google Arts & Culture: an online platform through which audiences from all over the world can access virtual tours, Street View, interactive stories, and high-resolution images of artworks from museum collections, with the aim of democratizing access to culture and promoting its preservation for future generations.
The Fortuny Museum is featured on Google Arts & Culture with over 50 works, including paintings and textiles, as well as 6 virtual exhibitions. These include: a focus on Henriette Fortuny, the woman who inspired and supported the eclectic Mariano Fortuny, becoming an essential part of an extraordinary artistic partnership; the history of the textile workshop at Palazzo Pesaro Orfei; the creation of the Knossos shawl, the first design of the Fortuny atelier; and the iconic Delphos gown, a dress that revolutionized fashion in the early 20th century.
We wear culture
Over 3,000 years of fashion and costume history are brought together in the largest showcase of diverse styles in the new Google project We Wear Culture, available on the Google Arts & Culture platform. The initiative is the result of a collaboration with the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia and more than 180 renowned cultural institutions from around the world, from New York to London, from Paris to Tokyo, from São Paulo to Venice.
The Fortuny Museum and the Museum of Palazzo Mocenigo are part of the We Wear Culture project, opening the doors of two of Venice’s most precious museums to a global audience and making their treasures accessible. The Fortuny Museum and the Museum of Palazzo Mocenigo stand as essential milestones in tracing an “immersive” history of fashion, highlighting the role of creative ingenuity in shaping the language and wearable identity of an entire period in Venetian history.
