Free high-resolution artworks, museum tours and curated stories from thousands of institutions, including gigapixel images that zoom to individual brushstrokes.
Interactive Amplify
Students zoom into Bruegel's Hunters in the Snow on Google Arts & Culture, choose one small detail, and post a reading of the painting's mood that the detail supports.
Interactive Replace
Each student gathers 12 portrait references from Google Arts & Culture and the web onto their own private Padlet wall, with a one-line caption for each.
Passive Amplify
The teacher zooms slowly into The Starry Night on Google Arts & Culture so the class can see the swirls and thick dabs of paint, before children practise the same marks with oil pastels.
The teacher zooms into high-resolution images of Bauhaus objects, from Marianne Brandt's tea infuser to Marcel Breuer's tubular steel chairs, while Grade 10 note the design decisions behind each one.
The teacher reads W. H. Auden's 'Musée des Beaux Arts' aloud and zooms into Landscape with the Fall of Icarus on Google Arts & Culture at each detail the poem names.
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