Google already built library of around 200 hundred ultra high resolution or "gigapixel" images, but its looking to catalog much more than that. To help expedite the process, the company built a camera that captures hundreds of close-up images using lasers and sonar to ensure the smallest details are in focus. From there, software takes all of those images and puts them together like a puzzle. This will be particularly useful for capturing works that are sensitive to humidity and light, offering the ability to not only preserve their intricacies digitally, but to display them for years to come.

To help museums catalog their exhibitions with the gigapixel images, Google is sending out "a fleet" of the cameras around the world. What's more, it's doing so free of charge. The company's Cultural Institute also made the first thousand art camera images available to celebrate International Museum Day, and you can view the collection right here.