Google has updated the website and mobile application of its Arts & Culture platform, home to all kinds of content from partners signed up to its Cultural Institute program. Google Arts & Culture is a new way to explore the best and most handsome things that humans have created all around planet Earth.
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– Google’s new Arts and Culture app puts the works of over 1,000 museums in the palm of your hand, Engadget reports.
The app allows users to discover works and artefacts from more than 1000 museums across 70 countries. Other notable additions include timeline and color-based searches, Wikipedia-style daily articles, and an Art Recognizer that uses image recognition to get contextual information when you visit real museums and galleries. More than just an online display of art, though, it encourages viewers to parse the works and gather insight into the visual culture we rarely encounter outside the rarified world of brick-and-mortar museums. Set to be implemented in museums across the world, the concept is now only available at London’s Dulwich Picture Gallery, Sydney’s Art Gallery of New South Wales and the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC.
The Android version of the app is 3.0.9 – it’s now in the Play Store, though the description and screenshots haven’t been updated yet. Here and there, the site will warn you that you’ll have the best experience if you install the Google Arts & Culture app on your phone.
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The app is Cardboard-ready, meaning you can use it to take virtual reality tours of places such as the Valley of the Temples in Sicily or the Hampi village ruins in India.
