The Metropolitan Museum of Art has published high-definition 3D scans of nearly 140 objects from its collection. Kate Mothes, writing for Colossal:

Even in person, much of the work remains hidden. We can’t see the backs of oil paintings, for example, and edges are often hidden within frames.

These scans reveal what the gallery can’t. Zoom into van Gogh’s brushstrokes closer than any museum guard would allow, flip an 18th-century Turkish tile to see its back, and rotate a Babylonian cuneiform tablet in your browser. Go lose an afternoon.