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Meet 10 Animals With Superpowers

From false heads to killer eyes, get cosy with these crazy critters

6 Animals Caught on Camera

From the Jigokudani Monkey Park to the Galápagos Islands

How the Zebra Got Its Stripes

Are the stripes just a random creation of nature?

Date du jour dans l'histoire

See Crazy Insects Up Close

Did you know they represent 90% of animal life forms on Earth

Henry Raeburn est né(e) il y a 265 ans jour pour jour

Sir Henry Raeburn, né le 4 mars 1756 à Stockbridge, mort le 8 juillet 1823 à Édimbourg, est un portraitiste écossais.

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Get to Know Artist Keith Haring in 7 Facts

Did you know he was inspired by cartoons from Dr. Seuss and Disney?

Zoom Into the Brushstrokes in 'The Tortoise Trainer'

What do these tortoises mean? Take a tour of Osman Hamdi Bey's masterpiece

Your Daily Challenge

Find the Hidden Details in These Artworks

Can you spot the dog in this 17th century Japanese illustration?

What's your favorite color?

Pick a color to discover culture

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Places

Explore Sri Lanka and over 10,000 amazing places

Museums

Inside the Rele Arts Foundation and over 2,000 more museums

Artworks

Discover over 100,000 artworks by Archibald Motley and more

Games

Play with arts and culture through coloring, crosswords, and more

Play with art using your phone

Explore with Augmented and Virtual Reality

Pocket Gallery

Project a Gallery Into Your Home

Discover the history of art in Augmented Reality

Art Projector

Play Cards With Caravaggio

Project this game into your home with your phone

Art Transfer

Transform Flowers Into Art

All you need to get creative is your phone

Bring culture to life with Augmented Reality

Project 3D models into the real-world through your phone camera

Objet 3D

Stand in the Belly of a Whale

Get up close to the largest creature on Earth in 3D

Objet 3D

Meet a Kaluga

Play with the largest freshwater fish in the world

Objet 3D

Get Close to a Brown Box Crab

Is it a rock or a sea creature?

Explore a museum from home

Since the museum opened its doors to the public in September of 1994, its greatest treasure is its painting. The world's most important collections of works by Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo are housed here permanently.

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An Immersive Tour of Jacob Lawrence's Work

With Lawrence's missing artwork recently found, why not look back at one of his most famous works

10 Scandalous Fashions That Rocked History

From Marie Antoinette's gaulle to Vivienne Westwood's bondage

"Now, creative digital methods are almost limitless – to use a stylus, tablet, and painting program and be able to create a piece of work with almost lifelike medium and the ability to hit 'undo' sometimes feels a bit like cheating."Mark Hooley

An Introduction to Digital Art

Artist Mark Hooley explores a world of art born digital

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Music + art

Discover Shadow Art to Music

Explore 'Hanuman' from the Unit Pengelola Museum Seni

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Revisit blockbuster exhibitions from 2020

Bring art from two major shows into your home

Seoul

National Treasures at the National Museum of Korea

Discover some of the oldest and important artifacts from Korea's past

St Petersburg

Two Palmyras at the State Hermitage Museum

Explore the ancient ruins of Palmyra in 360˚

Art Selfie

Which Artworks Look Like You?

Take a selfie and discover your artistic twin

Cats in culture

Explore the feline symbol across the ages

Fushimi Dolls

Discover how these cat-like figures are made

10 Coolest Cats From Art History

Enjoy purr-fect artworks from Renoir, Manet, and more

Cats From Ancient Egypt

Looking back at the history of the felines

The Fresco of the Big Cats

See the major work of the Chauvet Cave

Zoom into masterpieces

ExplorerGolden Gate Highlands National ParkFree State

Music's biggest names narrate some of the world's most famous artworks

J.Balvin x Fernando Botero

The best-selling Prince of Reggaeton discusses his pride for Colombia

Zoom Into '20 de Julio' For Yourself

Did you spot the cat slinking away in the distance?

Choose an activity

Get creative with arts and culture at home

Lab experiment

Play a Kandinsky Painting

Hear the colors in the artwork with Machine Learning

Scavenger hunt

Find the Trevi Fountain in the Streets of Rome

All roads lead to Rome, but which leads to this famous fountain?

Create art

How to Paint a Masterpiece Like Pollock

Get messy and recreate 'Watery Paths' with string

What is the main color of this image?

Clue: it is one of Vincent van Gogh's most famous paintings

Blue

'The Starry Night' by Vincent van Gogh, MoMA

Do the cultural 5

Your daily dose of arts and culture

Natural History

10 Natural Wonders in Big Sur

Join us on a road trip around California

Performance

10 Things to Know About West Side Story

Did you know it was originally going to be 'East Side Story'?

Food

11 Tasty Facts About Food in Art

Find out what was eaten at the famous Last Supper

Art

8 LGBTQI+ Artists You Should Know

Get inspired by David Hockney, Mickalene Thomas, and more

Travel

5 Must-See Historic Korean Sites

Explore Seoul's royal palaces

The great outdoors

Tour the unique beauty of South Africa's provinces

ExplorerAugrabies Falls National ParkNorthern Cape

ExplorerStony Point Nature ReserveWestern Cape

ExplorerRoyal National ParkKwaZulu-Natal

ExplorerLuvuvhu Fever Tree ForestLimpopo

ExplorerMountain Zebra National ParkEastern Cape

Museum From Home

Explore the Bolshoi Theatre

Discover this cultural symbol of Moscow in Russia

How Does Turner Connect to Tennis?

Discover connections between culture with Machine Learning

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Explore museums in Russia

Discover culture in Moscow, Kazan, and more

The State Hermitage Museum

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Museum of Fine Arts of Tatarstan

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International Centre of the Roerichs

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The State Russian Museum

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Social spotlight

Check out what everyone's loving on social

'Four Girls' by August Macke, Kunstpalast

Explore in high definition

The details you might have missed in Frida Kahlo, Monet, and more

Get to know Artemisia

Be inspired by the life and legend of Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi

Music + art

FKA twigs x Artemisia Gentileschi

Exploring female empowerment 400 years on

High art

The Story Behind the Marlborough House Ceiling

What happened when the artist was invited to the royal court

Quick facts

8 Things You Might Not Know About Artemisia

Rediscover the overlooked life of Artemisia Gentileschi

Timeline

Explore an Interactive Timeline of Artemisia's Life

Piece together the pivotal moments

Watch

See All 14 of Her Existing Paintings in Under 2 Minutes

The greatest female artist of the 17th century

Audio tours

Listen and explore iconic paintings

Yue Minjun's Hysterics

Explore the contemporary Chinese painter's unsettling emotional satire

The Wheel

Explore Toulouse-Lautrec's Belle Époque scene from the MASP

The Sun

Explore Giuseppe Pelizza Da Volpedo's dazzling painting from La Galleria Nazionale

Explore sites from your sofa

Couch travel recommendations

Milwaukee: Fiercely Independent, Wholly Unexpected

From custard to contemporary art, murals to Lake Michigan

Versailles: The Palace is Yours

A private virtual tour of the former home of French royalty

Hamburg: A City of Culture

Explore the history, art and music of Hamburg

Take a Virtual Holiday to Vietnam

From caves and dragons to fishing villages and floating houses

South Africa: An Explorer's Paradise

Part one of a journey to the breathtaking views and thrilling nature of South Africa

What does yellow sound like to Kandinsky?

Clue: it sounds like a brass instrument according to Kandinsky's color theory

Trumpet

'Yellow-Red-Blue' by Wassily Kandinsky, Bauhaus Dessau Foundation

Explore in 3D

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Nature tours

Discover the beauty of French National Parks

Explore Haut Jura Regional Park

See the region's luscious landscapes from home

Explore the Landes de Gascogne

Discover the wonders of the French Regional National Park

Explore Ballons des Vosges Nature Park

Discover wooded slopes, vineyards, and a thousand ponds

Découvrir avec Street View

ExplorerBradman MuseumAustralia

From backstage at the Paris Opera to the top of the Taj Mahal

ExplorerMachu PicchuPeru

ExplorerCERNGeneva

ExplorerPergamonmuseumBerlin

Pose of the day

Strike a pose

Like Christian Krohg's painting 'Tired' from the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Norway

Explore by artist

Discover artists alphabetically or through time

Alma Thomas

16 éléments

Jamini Roy

87 éléments

Utagawa Kuniyoshi

356 éléments

Dorothea Lange

96 éléments

Clémentine Hunter

13 éléments

The IT crowd

Influential people in the history of computing

Tim Berners-Lee: World Wide Web

The father of the world wide web

Apple Computers

Discover more about early Apple computers

Ada Lovelace: First Programmer

The Victorian woman who traded in poems for coding

Lamarr: Frequency Hopping

Discover how a Hollywood actress helped develop WiFi

Explore in 360°

See All 360° Videos

Experience culture from all angles

An Interactive Kayaking Journey in 360°

An adventure through Kenai Fjords National Park in Alaska

Enter the Hubble Control Centre

Take a tour of the day-to-day operations behind the Hubble Telescope

Meet a Prehistoric Sea Dragon

Bring a Rhomaleosaurus back to life in Virtual Reality

Explore by time

Travel Through Time

From ancient artifacts to contemporary art

Castles Through the Ages

How these grand structures changed through history

1940s Hats

Explore the most stylish headgear of the time

Rings from 300 BCE

Explore how they've changed over time

English Heritage Through Time

From prehistoric henges to medieval artworks

Cars Through the Ages

15 400 éléments

Meet music icons

Spotlight on famous music makers

Voices of India

Early folk recordings from the archive of Indian music

Bernstein: American Icon

Bernstein composed original works for stage and screen

Beethoven: Romanticism

A great composer who went deaf and wrote incredible music

Klapa Singing

Overview of the Klapa singing tradition in Dalmatia

Mahler: a Prolific Composer

Mahler composed his first symphony at the age of 27

Explore museums in Africa

Discover art and culture in Egypt, Nigeria, Kenya, and more

mahatat for contemporary art

Égypte

The Centenary Project

Nigeria

National Museums of Kenya

Kenya

Doxandem Squad

Sénégal

Iziko Museums of South Africa

Afrique du Sud

Places to explore

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From ancient sites to cultural treasures

Journey Around Mexico

Unique landscapes, ancient heritage, and iconic artists

Exploring the Maya World

A journey into the past with ancient art and digital technology

Meet the People of Kenya

From the cradle of mankind to the superheroes of today

Wonders of Pakistan

A showcase of Pakistan's finest cultural treasures

Art around the world

Discover More

Discover modern masterpieces, surprising sculptures, and more

Meet Lee Ungno

A new look at the life and work of the pioneering Korean artist

Wayang Shadow Puppets

Style, epic stories, and surprises in the world of Indonesian wayang

Cuban Arts & Culture

Discover artworks, archives, and stories from Cuba

A Century of Polish Art

The inspirations and impact of Poland's greatest twentieth century artists

Culture across the globe

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Stories that have shaped history

Korean Heritage

Explore stories that have shaped the lives of the people of Korea

Heritage on the Edge

Using technology to protect cultural sites against climate change

Preserving Afghan Heritage

Explore the art, architecture, craft, and people who keep it alive

Woven Stories from Papua New Guinea

A journey into the world of hand-woven Bilum bags