Are you curious about what Van Gogh’s Starry Night looks like up close? Have you ever toured the ancient Maya temples or met the inspirational figures of Black history? Do you want to learn about Japan’s unique food culture or incredible Indian railways?
Google Arts & Culture puts the treasures, stories and knowledge of over 2,000 cultural institutions from 80 countries at your fingertips. From the suffragettes who fought for women’s rights, to performing arts at the Paris Opera, to NASA’s archive of stunning images, discover stories about our cultural heritage. It’s your doorway to explore the art, history, people and wonders of our world.
Highlights:
• Art Transfer – Take a photo and transform it with classic artworks
• Art Selfie – Discover portraits that look like you
• Colour Palette – Find art by using the colours of your photo
• Art Projector – See how artworks look in real size
• Pocket Gallery – Wander through immersive galleries and get up close to art
• Art Camera – Explore high-definition artworks
• 360° videos – Experience culture in 360 degrees
• Virtual reality tours – Step inside world-class museums
• Street View – Tour famous sites and landmarks
• Explore by time and colour – Travel through time and see the rainbow through art
• Art Recogniser – Point your device camera at artworks to learn more about them, even when offline (at select museums only)
More features:
• Exhibits – Take guided tours curated by experts
• Favourites – Save and group your favourite artworks into galleries to share with friends or students
• Nearby – Find museums and exhibitions near you
• Notifications – Subscribe to receive weekly highlights or favourite content updates
• Translate – Use the translate button to read about exhibits from around the world in your language
Permissions notice:
• Location: used to recommend cultural sites and events based on your current location
• Camera: used to recognise artworks and provide related information about them
I feel like I have to fight against the app to actually read and enjoy the content. Accidentally click on something? Zero way to get back to what you were reading. Want to zoom in and look at a painting? It’s great that you can but if you want to do anything else in the app you have to exit the app and run a search from scratch to actually read about the painting you were looking at. Such wasted potential. The frustrating user experience makes me far less likely to use the app.
Amazing
Best part of the app, is that it doesn’t have much South African art galleries!
Useless for South Africa
This app is useless for South Africa.
No AR, no Portrait Selfie search. And it has a total of 7x points of interest in the whole country. 5x in JHB and 2x in CPT. This app promises a great experience and it’s a nice idea but it’s currently just a waste of a time. Not worth it for any feature until they start supporting us in South Africa.
Where’s the Selfie option
I, Honestly, only downloaded this app for the selfie/painting comparison option and I see, now, that it’s not available in South Africa. I gave it three stars because there’s an entire Harry Potter art collection and even though I’m not a huge art fan, I can appreciate the Wizarding World and all the things that come with it...but I’m still gonna delete the app in the next week or so and download it if/when the selfie option is available to us in SA
You’re Google... Aren’t you supposed to be worldwide?
Great idea for an app. You’ll get a better rating once you pull up your socks and make all features available globally. At least South Africa is not the only country being left behind at the moment.
Disappointed at no selfie comparison in South Africa
These features really should be available everywhere.
No selfie feature for South Africa?
A nice app but I only installed it to try the selfie feature. Why is it not available in all regions? Not available in South Africa, for example. That's a bit lame.
Selfie functionality
Please make the selfie functionality available in South Africa. I love the app though
Thank you
So glad I have this app but I wish the selfie app was available in South Africa. I'd also like to see more South African galleries listed.
where’s the art match feature?
I’ve downloaded the app and it’s great but i can’t find the feature which matches your face with a portrait... ?
