Google Arts & Culture - Art exploration & learning

Ever wondered about the intricate details of Van Gogh's masterpiece Starry Night? Have you dreamt of exploring ancient Maya temples, meeting influential figures from Black history, delving into Japan's unique food culture, or marveling at India's impressive railways? 

Welcome to Google Arts & Culture

With us, you have access to the rich treasures, captivating stories, and vast knowledge of over 2,000 cultural institutions spanning across 80 countries. Unveil tales ranging from the brave suffragettes advocating for women's rights, to dazzling performances at the Paris Opera, to the awe-inspiring imagery housed in NASA's archive. This app serves as your gateway to discover the art, history, people, and marvels that make up our world.

Features:

- Art Transfer: Transform your photos with the essence of classic artworks

- Art Selfie: Find portrait resemblances to yourself

- Color Palette: Discover art based on the colors in your photos

- Art Projector: Visualize artworks in their true size

- Pocket Gallery: Immerse yourself in galleries and appreciate art up close

- Art Camera: Engage with high-definition artworks

- 360° Videos: Immerse yourself in cultural experiences through 360-degree videos

- Virtual Reality Tours: Wander through renowned museums

- Street View: Tour famous landmarks and sites

- Time and Color Exploration: Travel through time to explore the rainbow of art

- Art Recognizer: Learn about artworks by pointing your camera at them, even without an internet connection (available in select museums)

Additional Features:

- Exhibits: Join guided tours curated by experts

- Favorites: Save and organize beloved artworks into galleries to share with friends or students

- Nearby: Discover nearby museums and exhibitions

- Notifications: Subscribe to receive weekly highlights and updates on favorite content

- Translate: Utilize the translate function to read about exhibits from around the globe in your preferred language

Permissions Requested:

- Location: To suggest cultural sites and events based on your current location

- Camera: For recognizing artworks and providing related information

- Contacts (Get Accounts): Required for signing in with a Google Account to store user preferences and favorites

- Storage: Utilized for recognizing artworks and accessing related information offline

Partner with us

We can help digitize, manage, and publish your collection online. With our easy-to-use tools, your stories can be told beautifully to a global audience.

Digitize your collection

Learn more about the digitization tools available to partners of Google Arts & Culture, including Art Camera, Museum View and Tabletop Scanner technologies.

· Art Camera

Photograph and preserve your collection in ultra high-resolution with our custom-built Art Camera. The system is quick and easy to use: a painting can be digitized in an hour or less.

· Virtual tours

Create seamless 360°virtual tours with our specially designed Street View tools and invite global audiences to tour your institution.

· Tabletop Scanner

Digitize two-dimensional objects like photographs, drawings, paintings, and manuscripts quickly and at scale.

Organize, curate and publish

Share the stories of your collection with the world through our website and mobile app (on Android and iOS). We can support you with tools for collection management, publishing and analytics.

· Search

Search for your favorite artworks, where to see them in-person and the artists who made them.

· Chrome Browser

Share your artworks with millions of people every time they open a new tab in Chrome.

· Chromecast Backdrop

Show images from your collection as the rotating background on TVs or large screens.

· Content Embedding

Use the high-resolution image zoom viewer and storytelling tools on your website.

· Digital Exhibitions

Create immersive digital exhibitions using zoom, video,audio and viewing notes.

The Lab

The Lab is where tech and creative communities come together to share ideas and create new experiments. Here our team collaborates with engineers, artists, curators and creative coders to help drive innovation and creativity.

Our Partners

Explore the collections of more than 2000 cultural institutions from around the world. Kindly refer to https://artsandculture.google.com/partner

Reviews:

The Google Arts and Culture application is the type of application people who are curious about the cultures of the world dream of. To start off the design is in balance with a clear color background and minimal text regarding categories and article titles. Users can easily navigate the main sections of the app from the bottom tab. The app can also be used in various ways whether consuming information from the content provided which ranges from classical artworks articles on historical figures, science as well as a range of other topics. The app can be used to create content by way of galleries the user constructs. The app can even be seen as a observational lens through use of Virtual Reality and Selfies. A short review can’t do this application justice. It is well worth a download just for the ability to enrich your imagination.

It could be called Humanity or the World. It’s certainly not limited to art. You can go on 3D virtual visits not just to every museum in existence but to important sites- Machu Piccu, Barcelona, Stonehenge, you get the drift. For a history & archaeology buff, it is tops. You can spend hours wandering around in here . There’s fun stuff too - it will find artworks with people that resemble you or give you artworks with your favorite color predominent. Even if math is your thing, there’s plenty to keep you busy. Learn about perspective in innovative ways. See similarities in artworks and crafts from disparate cultures, sometimes hundreds of years apart-and don’t forget symbols. Maybe the meaning of mankind is in here somewhere. This is Google at it’s absolute best.