Google Arts & Culture

Google Arts & Culture: Online Museum Platform

Discover high-resolution images, virtual tours, and immersive stories from over 2000 museums and archives with Google Arts & Culture, a leading online platform developed by Google.

What is Google Arts & Culture?

Google Arts & Culture is an online platform and app developed by Google that provides users access to high-resolution images and exhibits from over 2000 leading museums and archives around the world. It works with cultural institutions to digitize and display thousands of artefacts and artworks spanning human history, from stone tools and fossils to abstract expressionist paintings.

The platform allows users to take virtual tours of popular historic and cultural sites - like Anne Frank's House in Amsterdam, Ancient Pompeii in Italy or Chichen Itza in Mexico. Users can zoom in on these high-resolution images to see the fine details on artifacts and artworks. There is also Street View technology integrated into the tours.

Google Arts & Culture features immersive and curated online exhibits that use storytelling techniques to provide context around works of art, heritage sites and more. It incorporates elements like timelines, detailed captions and interpretative texts. There are thematic exhibits focused on topics like fashion, astronomy, World War II, music and more.

The app version includes some additional features like an art selfie tool that matches your facial characteristics with famous portraits and paintings. There is also an Art Palette tool that allows you to extract the dominant colors from famous paintings. Overall, Google Arts & Culture aims to make art and culture accessible to everyone through technology.

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