Google’s efforts to try and make leaving your house a thing of the past has taken yet another big leap with the introduction of Art Project, which allows users to virtually explore 385 gallery rooms in 17 museums around the world and peruse more than 1,000 high-resolution images. Art Project features some of the most foremost destinations for art lovers around the world, including Washington’s very own Freer Gallery of Art.

Art Project is, simply stated, Street View for fine art — the tool allows users to navigate through the halls of each museum, and, in certain cases, zoom in for intricate detail on masterpieces inside. The Freer allowed “The Princess from the Land of Porcelain,” a work by James McNeill Whistler, to undergo a “gigapixel” process, which allows viewers to even see the texture of the canvas the work was painted on. There are also options to view some museum’s collections in a gallery database, leap to various places in the museums by using an interactive floor plan, and the chance to curate your own collection of favorite pieces from the Project’s museums.

Obviously, this is all really cool. We highly recommend taking a stroll through the Freer on your lunch break today — be sure to check out the Whistler, too. The detail is fascinating.

For further reading, the Post has an exhaustive review of Art Project over at its Arts Post blog, for those of you interested in the international specifics of the project.