Google Arts and Culture: The trending edutainment app  

School visits to museums or zoos have stopped since 2020. Not just school, but any outings with family and friends, have become impossible for school kids. These visits were not just day long picnic; they opened children to man-made wonders, and left a deep impact that cannot be achieved by showing photos.  

Google Arts and Culture has become the solution for many teachers to address and fill this gap. It has been a learning trend over the last year, and continues to trend. Let’s know more.  

What is Google Art and Culture?  
Google Arts and Culture is a website as well as an iOS or Android app. It provides free access to art, culture, and historical collections from all over the world. Users can explore museums, artwork, historical events and characters, major art movements and more. The search criteria are flexible: it can be according to geo-location on a map, a timeline, by name, or even by colour! Basically, Google Art and Culture has curated, attractive, and easy to find material on everything from fossils to palaces, from Impressionism to Graphics.  

What are the features that made Google Art and Culture so popular? 
Google Arts and Craft is popular with students, teachers, parents, and even the few travellers venturing out now. These are some of the features that contribute to its popularity:  

• The site and the app windows are well-organized and easy to navigate 
• The search results are obviously way more optimised that Google Chrome. So it’s a major time-saver for students working on projects and teachers collecting material for a class 
• It’s possible to virtually tour sites and explore art galleries  
• Google leads the user on to look at related material and references with the Explore Connections option. So a student looking at the Taj can check out other architecture by king, dynasty, period, country, art type and material  
• There are notes with stories about each artefact  
• News and events about historical places are part of it 

Google Arts and Crafts scores far above almost all other virtual historical and artistic apps by being educationally useful, as well as simply entertaining and fun to browse.