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Zoom Into 'The Kiss'

Discover the bling and beauty in Klimt's famous painting

Meet a Giant Pangolin in Augmented Reality

Get up close to the scaled animal with AR

How Do You Look in This Mythical Helmet?

Try on this helmet with an Art Filter

Can You Guess What Came First?

Play a game and compare cultural moments in time

Enjoy a Cinematic Experience in 360˚

Take a journey into the world of cinema

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Explore museums and play with Art Filter, Pocket Galleries, Art Selfie, and more

Where do you want to explore?

Discover top museums and collections from around the world

Tokyo

See the home of Hokusai's 'The Great Wave'

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Berlin

Tour the iconic Museum Island in Berlin from anywhere in the world

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Brazil

10 artworks you'll love at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo

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Scandinavia

Discover the history of Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Finland

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Play with art using your phone

Discover arts and culture with Augmented and Virtual Reality

Art Projector

Hang a Colorful Artwork at Home

See how this painting would look in your living room

Pocket Gallery

Meet Vermeer in Augmented Reality

See all of the artist’s paintings together for the first time in history

Art Transfer

Transform Your Photos Into Artworks

Put a Cézanne-inspired filter on your images

Accessories from the ages

Discover jewelry from around the world

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Try On an Ancient Necklace

Upgrade your outfit with an Art Filter

Color explorer

Now Pick a New Style of Necklace

Explore this Kenyan choker and other necklaces by color

Bring culture to life with Augmented Reality

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

Stand in the Belly of a Whale

The skeleton is from a whale that became stranded in 1891 in Ireland

Discover More Creatures in Augmented Reality

See this reef-dweller up close

Discover the Wonders of Mexico

Explore Mexico's ancient heritage, top museums, iconic artists, and unique landscapes

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What's your favorite color?

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Discover over 45,000 colorful contemporary artworks

Red

Orange

Yellow

Green

Teal

Blue

Purple

Pink

Music + art

Relax in the South of France With Monet

Explore 'Antibes Seen from La Salis' to classical music

Unmissable stories to read today

The Story of St Andrew in 2 Minutes

Learn about St Andrew's connection to Scotland on St Andrew's Day

7 Japanese Artists You'll Love

From Hiroshige to Hokusai, discover the incredible woodblock printing of these ukiyo-e artists

Recommended for you

Discover popular artworks and hidden gems from around the world

Girl with a Pearl Earring

Johannes Vermeer

A Lady Writing

From related movement

Girl Reading a Letter by an Open Window

Visually similar work

The Love Letter

Created around the same time

Woman Reading a Letter

Depicts similar person

Young Woman with a Water Pitcher

By same artist

Woman Holding a Balance

From related movement

The milkmaid

Uses same medium

Explore a museum from home

Tate Britain houses a substantial collection of the art of the United Kingdom since Tudor times, and in particular has large holdings of the works of J. M. W. Turner, who bequeathed all his own collection to the nation. It is one of the largest museums in the country.

See the collection

Outer Tour

Explore Machu Picchu

Virtually discover the 15th century Inca city in Peru

Go star gazing

Can you spot any constellations?

Art Selfie

Which Artworks Look Like You?

Take a selfie and discover your artistic twin

Zoom into masterpieces

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

Matty Healy x Piet Mondrian

The 1975 frontman searches for a collective utopia

Zoom Into Large Composition A with Black Red, Gray, Yellow, and Black

Get lost in the visual vocabulary of red, blue, and yellow

Which artist is known for their paintings of flowers?

Georgia O’Keeffe

'Petunia No. 2' by Georgia O'Keeffe, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Strike a pose

Like 'The Merry Fiddler' by Gerard van Honthorst from the Rijksmuseum

Do the cultural 5

Your daily dose of arts and culture

Food

Dashi & Umami: The Essence of Japan's Cuisine

Discover the simple yet essential elements

Art

How to Understand Art Through Emojis

😍 or 🙄 ? You decide

Natural History

5 Awesome Species of Sea Turtles

Tick (virtually) swimming with turtles off your bucket list

Fashion

15 Years of Versace Without Versace

Unpick Gianni Versace's fashion legacy

Sport

Get to Know the Speed Sisters

Meet the first all-female Palestinian auto racing team

5 heritage sites to explore

Step outside with Street View

ExploreThe Volcanic Island of Jeju

ExploreHistoric Mosque City of Bagerhat

ExploreNgorongoro Conservation Area

ExploreHistoric Center of Goiás

ExploreSerengeti National Park

How Does Miró Connect to Minnesota?

Discover connections between culture with Machine Learning

Start finding connections

Choose an activity

Get creative with arts and culture

Create art

Paint a Pollock

Get messy and create 'Watery Paths' with string

Scavenger hunt

Solve This Rijksmuseum Scavenger Hunt

Scour the halls of Amsterdam's famous museum

Art experiment

Find the Hidden Paths Through Culture

What's the connection between a clay figure and Van Gogh?

Explore contemporary art collections

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Explore art in LA, São Paulo, London, and more

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

United States

MASP - Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand

Brazil

Serpentine Galleries

United Kingdom

Museum of Fine Arts of Tatarstan

Russia

Instagram spotlight

Check out what everyone's loving on social

'Landscape of Sabará' by Alberto da Veiga Guignard, MASP

Explore in high definition

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

Being Basquiat

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Get to know the life and work of the artist

Exhibit

Life With Basquiat

Intimate photos of the artist

Art Up Close

Zoom Into 'Man from Naples'

See the brushstrokes up close

Watch

Basquiat in Action

Watch the young artist graffiti in NYC

Story

Learn About Basquiat’s Complex Relationship With His Hero

Find out how Andy Warhol and Basquiat knew each other

Explore sites from your sofa

Couch travel recommendations

Tour Iconic Italian Sites

From St Mark's Basilica to Pompeii

An Adventure Across India

Ancient monuments, regional arts and crafts, myths and folklore

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

Which Spanish site is this?

Sagrada Familia

Sagrada Família by Joan Abelló, Fundació Municipal Joan Abelló

Explore in 3D

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Get a new perspective

Can you guess these famous artworks?

Click the images to find out more about the paintings

Guess

Clue: This Iconic Work Originally Only Sold For $300

It is worth a lot more today

Guess

Clue: It Shows a Make-Believe Village

...and is the artist's most famous painting

Guess

Clue: The Artist is Considered a Pioneer of the Primitivism Movement

He painted this during his first visit to Tahiti

Guess

Clue: This Renaissance Masterpiece Shows 500 Identified Species of Plant

Can you name any of them?

Explore with Street View

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

ExploreHosier LaneMelbourne

ExploreUffizi GalleriesFlorence

ExploreTokyo Fuji Art MuseumJapan

ExploreOpen WallsBaltimore

Recreate art at home

Recreate

'Little Walter's Toys' by August Macke with objects from around your house

Explore by artist

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Discover artists alphabetically or through time

Archibald Motley

7 items

Abanindranath Tagore

3 items

Wen Zhengming

35 items

Artemisia Gentileschi

33 items

Bharti Kher

5 items

Faces of Frida

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A closer look at life, art, and legacy of Frida Kahlo

Faces of Frida

Peek Inside Frida Kahlo's Wardrobe

Discovered locked in her house more than 50 years after her death

Faces of Frida

Zoom into The Two Fridas

Examine the brushstrokes, up close

Faces of Frida

Take a Tour of Frida Kahlo's Studio

See the room inside her famous blue house

Faces of Frida

Watch Living Art Inspired by Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo comes to life

Explore in 360°

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Experience culture from all angles

The Kimono in Virtual Reality

How did Japanese design redefine beauty?

See Bryce Canyon By Horseback

Explore in in 360° and discover why it's called the Peekaboo Loop

Visit the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus

A guided visit in virtual reality

How Do You Go to the Toilet in Space?

The question we all wanted to ask

On the same page

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Stories about literature from around the world

Books

A Brief History of Books

How books went from handwritten scrolls to digitized publications

Books

10 Incredible Libraries From Around the World

The beauty of these buildings speaks volumes

Books

Why Queer Archives Are Important

A study of LGBTQ+ life

Books

10 Places That Inspired Your Favorite Books

Places in literature that have animated the words of wanderlust authors

Books

Which Books Did Van Gogh Read?

The artist read as much as he painted

Explore by time

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From ancient artifacts to contemporary art

Masks from 100 CE

Faces frozen in time for millennia

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

Out-of-this world stories of space

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To infinity and beyond

Space Exploration

A Brief History of Space Food

What do astronauts eat?

Space Exploration

A Virtual Tour of Hubble's Control Center

Learn about this orbiting spacecraft

Space Exploration

What Was Apollo 11?

The events, the people, and the accomplishment

Space Exploration

8 Photos From Space That Will Rock Your World

The final frontier on film

Space Exploration

Ellen Ochoa: Making History Aboard Discovery

Meet the first Hispanic woman in space

Meet Zaha Hadid

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Discover the visionary architect’s early paintings and drawings

Zaha Hadid

A Life in Architecture

Explore the relationship between painting, drawing, and technology in design

Zaha Hadid

A Virtual Tour of Zaha Hadid's Most Iconic Buildings

The buildings that shaped her career

Zaha Hadid

Her Early Paintings and Drawings

Rarely seen drawings by the visionary architect

Zaha Hadid