Google Arts & Culture

Google Arts & Culture – Are you wondering how masterpieces of the world fine arts look like up close? Or do you want to understand the difference between classical and contemporary art? Or maybe something more – do you want to visit all the most famous museums and art galleries in the world? Excellent! In the modern world of high technologies and virtual reality, everything is possible.

Application Google Arts & Culture gives you a unique opportunity to visit exhibitions, museums and art galleries virtually, where you can view masterpieces of fine art up close and listen to thousands of stories related to art objects, interpreted by experts and professional guides.

You can save your favorite fine art objects – paintings, sculptures, buildings and natural wonders – to collect them in your own collection of works, which you can share with friends on social networks right from the application.

Travel around the Louvre or the Hermitage, visit public and private, closed, museums, galleries and inserts – learn something new every day!

Project Google Arts & Culture collaborates with over 1,200 museums and art galleries in 70 countries. This means that more than 80% of the world’s fine art masterpieces are in your palm and in one click!

Technical details:

1. Paintings, sculptures, buildings – you can scale (enlarge) them to see the details;
2. Search engine – with its help you can find the desired objects by keywords – by proper names: artists, museums;
3. Virtual tours – they provide an opportunity, accompanied by a professional guide, to visit real exhibitions, galleries and museums;
4. The application automatically finds museums and art galleries that are close to your location;
5. Notifications – by subscribing to them you will always be aware of the latest news events related to the object of your subscription;
6. Google Translator is integrated into the application – it will help you read texts accompanying objects of fine art in your native language.

Hardware requirements – you should allow the application to access:

• Phone camera;
• Memory card;
• Locations;
• Contacts and to your own Google account.