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Summary: Misnamed, but a lot of fun
Review: 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".
Rating:
Summary: Misnamed, but a lot of fun
Review: 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".
Rating:
Summary: Loved 2/5 of these CD-Roms
Review: There are 3 CD-Roms dedicated to the Louvre, and 2 for other assorted European museums. My favorites are the 2 assorted (The Hermitage,etc.)with the focus on art masterpieces. The Louvre program focused on portraits and historical pieces. Had difficulty loading multiple discs under original program for initial disc.
Rating: 
Summary: Money well spent!
Review: This is a fine bunch of CDs. There's not a whole lot of art from the last century--they might have included a bit more modern stuff--but overall it offers a fine, sizable collection of art. Beyond that, I would recommend this because it is the perfect match of form and format; the art looks better on a computer screen than in does in a text, and you can click in for close-ups and details that enlarge with astounding clarity. If these guys come out with CD's focusing on modern art--or architecture--I will be in line to scoop them up.
Rating: 
Summary: Value and Scope
Review: 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. What can I say? Hey, I'm happy...
Rating: 
Summary: Could be very good but...
Review: This program is very buggy. We couldn't get it to run properly on two different computers. From what we were able to see, it could be a very good program if you could get it to work, so it does get one star for potential. One major problem is that error messages came up in Italian and we didn't have our English/Italian dictionary handy to figure it all out.
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