Cleveland: from industrial powerhouse to bustling arts city
While many people know that Cleveland has a long, storied history of manufacturing, many don’t realize that it was the tycoons of those industries — ranging from John D. Rockefeller…
Telling powerful African stories through color
African culture is joyful, expressive and vivid, and intrinsically linked to color – from rallying shades of liberation to evocative hues of optimism, color is embraced as an unspoken language.…
Kwentuhan: Sharing our stories this Filipino American History Month
“Kwentuhan” roughly translates to “sharing stories” in English. For Filipino American History Month, or Kapamilya Month as our Filipino Googler Network refers to it, we sat down with Paolo Malabuyo,…
The Art of Survival: A Yazidi Cultural Archive
The arts are integral tohow we make sense of the world. Traditional arts and cultural practices have long been used to elevate human experience and shift perspectives. However, in recent…
Preserving one of Nigeria’s last sacred groves
On the forested banks of the Osun river in Osogbo, Nigeria lies one of the last cultural sites of its kind. In this sacred grove, Yoruba deities are embodied in…
Mapping our emotions at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Art can inspire a wide range of feelings. From the melancholy of a painting to the awe we feel standing before a sculpture, researchers have been fascinated by the relationship…
How LiDAR tech is a world heritage hero
There’s a ninth-century Buddhist temple at the heart of an ancient city in Myanmar that’s constructed from red brick and adorned with exquisite plaster moldings softened by weather and age.…
Play The Descent of the Serpent, the first video game from Google Arts & Culture
Have you ever wished you could discover ancient civilizations by immersing yourself in their world? Today, you can unlock the mysteries of the ancient civilizations of Mesoamerica by experiencing them…
Digitizing artwork to share Puerto Rican culture around the globe
Today, for the first time, Puerto Rican art and culture is accessible on a new scale to audiences around the world. 10 museums and archives in Puerto Rico have come…
Bringing the solar system to life in 3D with NASA
The solar system has always been “teaching” us. You can see it in the drawings of the constellations in the Lascaux Caves and the astronomy of the ancient world —…