The Google Cultural Institute (GCI) has updated its Google website and app to allow users to browse the history and view panoramic imagery of historical sites like the Nalanda University. Additionally the company has added features like scrolling through art using a timeline and browsing painting based on color. Users will now also be able to use VR headsets like Google Cardboard to take a virtual tour of the Sanskriti Museum, which hosts a collection of Indian arts and crafts. The platform also launched a YouTube channel which will list original content relevant to cultural topics, created by various YouTubers. Other than this the platform will display the opening times of a museum, monument or location to find out what’s on that day and navigate to there. Finally Google also added an Art Recognizer feature (currently works in museums in London, Sydney and Washington DC), which will help users recognize paintings and find online information about it by scanning paintings using the phone camera. The company mentions that it will add this feature to other museums, including in India, although it provides no timeline. GCI partnership with Indian Museum In May this year, the GCI added 360-degree panoramic format images of artifacts, historical paintings and sculptures from within the galleries of Indian Museum. The company said then that all of the 35 physical galleries across categories like Art, Archaeology, Anthropology, etc. from the Indian Museum in Kolkata will be digitized under the GCI project. GCI partnership with National Museum In…
