Google
Cultural Institute partners with museums to bring cultural treasures from
around the world online and making them accessible to all.
Google is making its platform available for
museums to help them showcase their exhibits to smartphone users. Museums will
be able to use YouTube and Street View to showcase their exhibits to anyone
with a smartphone.
Google Cultural Institute has partnered with
museums worldwide for the project. 11 museums and cultural institutions have
participated in this pilot project to date and their apps are now live on
Google Play.
Some of the early adopters of this new software
platform are museums and institutions in France, Italy, Netherlands and
Nigeria, including the Museum of Arts et Métiers, Musee Curie, Museum of Le
Havre and Rijksmuseum van Oudheden to name a few.
Museums will be able to use Google’s “indoor”
Street View technology to offer 360 degree tours though their apps. The apps
will show exhibit photos and audio tours, and will come with social-sharing
features that let visitors post what they’re viewing in a museum on Facebook,
Google+ as well as via email with their friends. The apps are also available
offline for users who are travelling abroad and don’t have an internet
connection.
Google Cultural Institute has earlier digitised
the Dead Sea Scrolls, Art Project to bring museums online and
have documented the World Wonders in Street View and 3D. Last year Google
launched a 360 degree online view of Indian monuments in partnership
with Archaeological Survey of India. The project is aimed to create a panoramic
imagery of the "nationally important" monuments including the Taj
Mahal, Humayun's Tomb, Khajuraho, Qutub Minar, Red Fort and Agra Fort, etc.
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