Birmingham Museums Trust has joined the Google Art Project, contributing 127 works by 17 artists to the online collection.

The museum has a particularly strong collection of pre-Raphaelite arts and through inclusion in the project will be able to showcase paintings by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Ford Madox Brown and William Holman Hunt to global audiences.

The Google Art Project started in February 2011 and now includes works from 200 major art institutions from 40 countries.

On 21 March Google announced 30 new partners were joining the project, with others including street art in Brazil, Fundacion MAPFRE in Spain and Petofi Literary Museum in Hungary.

Image: Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery