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50 incredible Google Arts & Culture experiences you can try as Expeditions shuts down

50 incredible Google Arts & Culture experiences you can try as Expeditions shuts down

November 13, 2020 By Michael Perrigo Leave a Comment

Educators love Google Expeditions – it lets them take their students on virtual field trips across the world and through time right from their classrooms by way of virtual reality. They can experience different cultures and learn about history in a magical way and it’s been a tool that’s transformed education into an engaging and tangential learning experience. Sadly, the Expeditions app will no longer be available for download after June 30, 2021, but there is a good reason for the decision to shut it down and an even better silver lining – Google Arts & Culture.

Arts and Culture is Google’s free initiative to bring the world’s art and culture online. Users can explore museums, heritage sites, and wonders of the world right from their classrooms and homes both with and without VR headsets. Most of the 360 tours provided in Google Expeditions will be migrated over to Arts and Culture and will be accessible not only from its Android and iOS apps but also from the web. This opens up the ability for anyone to experience these tours from any device. Google seems to have decided this so that it would become more accessible during the pandemic and with the massive shift in hybrid learning technology that this year has brought about (read: at-home learning, virtual classrooms through video meetings, and most likely the surge in Chromebook sales).

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Google says they hope that the transition of Expeditions to Arts & Culture will provide educators with a bridge to continue to use immersive content to transform their classrooms and enrich the learning experience for their students. I’ve long since been a herald for Google Arts & Culture and today’s news provides me with the opportunity to give you a list of incredible reasons you should check it out. While others have been off playing with core Google services, I’ve always enjoyed taking the time to dig through the site and find interesting and unique things, and today I want to share some of them with you. Be sure to check out these 50 incredible Google Arts & Culture experiences and share them with your students. (Note: Some will require the app while most work on the web. Not all will be linked, but feel free to explore and be sure to turn the site into an icon for easy access!)

  1. Use a camera filter based on an iconic art style
  2. Virtually visit museums near you
  3. Use Google Arts & Culture in VR with daydream
  4. Explore Harry Potter in the British Library exhibition
  5. listen along as art comes to life
  6. Answer art trivia
  7. transform yourself into an Artwork
  8. collect art that you ‘like’
  9. Color in the Pyramids
  10. learn about culture in-depth
  11. find museums near you to visit post-COVID
  12. Take a selfie and see which artist you resemble
  13. guided tours of museums
  14. discover art based on color
  15. Get a weekly dose of culture
  16. get a street-level view
  17. paint a Jackson Pollock with paint and string
  18. guess the famous artwork
  19. Color famous paintings
  20. do a visual crossword
  21. compare cultural moments in time
  22. Solve artistic jigsaw puzzles with family and friends
  23. explore headwear from around the world
  24. see the homes of famous artists
  25. read stories about literature
  26. learn about artist’s lives
  27. Read stories of the past, present, and future of sports
  28. explore outdoors with 360 videos
  29. explore space in 360
  30. see dinosaurs come to life in 3D and AR
  31. discover classic fashion trends
  32. (Try to) read historic documents up close
  33. Open a fantasy map and navigate through an ocean of books
  34. compose melodies like a maestro
  35. Fill your favorite painting with your colors!
  36. Travel around the world with a pesky penguin
  37. Explore the CO2 footprint for individual foods and diets in the US, France, and the UK
  38. Dive into an acidifying ocean
  39. Explore what-if scenarios for climate crisis
  40. Witness glacial retreat over 140 years
  41. Decode Egyptian Hieroglyphics with Machine learning
  42. Enjoy an orchestra in 360°
  43. Discover what happened today in history
  44. Project art portraits into your house
  45. Sketch to discover inspiring artworks
  46. Discover extraordinary details in Japanese scrolls and screens
  47. Create your own dance
  48. See historical connections between pieces of art
  49. Discover historical events
  50. Experience shadow art through technology (coming soon)

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About Michael Perrigo

Think. Tinker. Dominate. Game developer and author. Must learn something new every day. I have a passion for the mobile games industry and where it's headed. I enjoy working out and eating delicious food to counteract my progress.

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