General
Beyond Google Earth
In this course, you'll discover that Google Earth contains a lot more than maps. It's also your own personal tour guide of the world's greatest cultural attractions.
In the following activities, you'll learn how to make the most of Google Arts & Culture to visit amazing museums and art galleries for free.
You'll also learn how to Take a tour in Google Earth and how this can broaden our horizons and take us off the beaten track.
To get you started, below is a short, animated video showing you how to get the most from Google Earth, Google Voyager and Google Arts & Culture.
Transcript
Welcome to "Beyond Google Earth". In this video, you'll learn how Google Earth shares mapping features with Google Arts & Culture to help broaden your cultural horizons. This demonstration uses the Google Chrome browser on a computer, but the steps are similar on a mobile device.
To begin, type artsandculture.google.com into your web browser. You don't need to be an arts aficionado to use Google Arts & Culture. It has something to inspire almost everyone, including music, history, fashion, and archaeology. And just like Google Earth, it uses maps to transport you to amazing places. You can take a virtual trip to the galleries, museums, theatres, and street art around the world. You can navigate through the halls and take a guided tour of exhibitions
You can visit iconic landmarks, or find museums and exhibitions near you. There's loads more to do at Google Arts & Culture. You can watch videos and read stories about exploration, artists, inventions, and more. You can use your mouse to examine objects in 3D, zoom in on masterpieces, curate artwork by colour, play games and puzzles, and interact in fun and creative ways, such as composing an opera.
Google Arts & Culture is being updated all the time, so there's always something fresh to discover. Everything is interconnected too, so almost every click can lead to something new. It's easy to wander the pages of Google Arts & Culture and uncover the unexpected, but you can also find information organised in different ways.
Click the menu at the top left to search by themes, collections, artists, historical events, and more. The menu on the right provides other ways to explore, and the search function helps you find something specific. Click on it to type in what you're looking for, and be amazed at what comes up.
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Do more with Google Earth
5 min
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Taking a tour in Google Earth
8 min
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Embrace Google Arts & Culture
6 min