Great Museums of the World

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• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0000326NZ
• Item model number: CS-30
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 24, 1999
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #10,701 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)

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Product Description

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A terrific selection of 150 works of art are showcased in this program, including paintings, sculptures and artifacts from all time periods. An index organized by date, theme, country, artist and artworks makes it easy to explore each genre of art. The background music is pleasant for browsing, and the narration serves up interesting tidbits of information about each piece of art. Fascinating details of cave paintings, for instance, are highlighted and discussed, helping to develop children's understanding of the art of prehistoric times. The CD nicely presents an overview of art history and would be useful in home or school settings.
Teaches: art history
Age Range: 10-up Copyright © 2000 Children's Software Revue

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Misnamed, but a lot of fun, December 15, 1999

By A Customer

The package should more properly be called "Great Art Museums of Europe", since there are a lot of great museums that aren't art museums, and a lot of great art museums that aren't in Europe. However, ignoring this technicality, the software is a lot of fun. It includes two CDs that cover major European museums, and three CDs dedicated exclusively to the Louvre. Everything is organized around "tours", available on a variety of art styles, regions (mostly in Europe, with a special section for the Egyptian collection in the Louvre), and topics (from the Virgin Mary to eroticism). If you aren't looking for anything in particular, it is great to just sit back and let the tours run. If you try to go beyond the tours, however, it is not so good - the interface is navigable, but not intuitive, and the works included are comprehensive at the masterpiece level, but thin out very quickly below the point of "everyone has heard of it".

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Might have been nice if it had worked!, March 22, 2000

By	Jim Quist (Deep River, CT USA) - See all my reviews

Just a word to the wise, I purchased three different copies of this software, and every single one came up with the same problem. I couldn't load the last 3 cd's. I have a Dell Pentium 3 450Mhz computer with 16 gigs of hard drive space, so I know it wasn't my computer. This product never worked and I would have to dicourage any person looking to puchase it. What a disapointment!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Value and Scope, October 13, 2000

By	Frank J. Carbo (Fairfax, VA USA) - See all my reviews

This is amazing for the money. For those of us who long, and I mean long, for a trip abroad, this is well worth many times the cost. I run a 633MHZ, Intel Celeron and it runs like a dream. Very authentic in atmosphere and effect. The scope is wonderful - a taste of the architecture, the art, and the history.You must understand that I am of the older generation - we were stuck with expensive books or saving for these trips. Maybe that is why this tour seems so valuable to me.

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