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Turn Your Phone Into Interactive Museum with Google Arts & Culture App

Being quarantined in house because of COVID-19 have opened ways for many platforms to entertain users. From playing Ludo King to watching the most favorite online movies with friends on Kast, users are enjoying being home. Now, a new entertainment has been revealed by one of the service providers – turn your phone into an interactive museum.

Yeah!! Turning your phone into a museum seems like impossible just as a lot of tech breakthroughs that were impossible before. Without further ado, let’s check out the app that makes you convert your cell phone into an ultimate source of entertainment:

Google Arts & Culture App

Ranked at 86 in the entertainment category, Google Arts & Culture App has been developed by Google LLC. The app comes with different themes to make your experience richer with categories like culture, art, history, & whatnot. And that too without leaving your house. Isn’t this amazing!!

Since we all are witnesses of the deadly virus “COVID-19” & what impact it has on the world, we have been instructed to not leave home. Let’s invest that time rather spending it & experience the world in our cellphones.

Google Arts & Culture app has larger-than-life collaboration with more than 1200 entities including museums, galleries, & institutions across 70 countries. This collaboration will be helpful to you while trying to exhibit these places online.

Imagine going to a museum or gallery (physically) and exploring every single teeny tiny info that excites you. You go there & check out the mind-blowing art so closely, go through different snaps, video content, & manuscripts to take a glance at history. All those things you can do right there sitting on the comfortable couch and have an amazingly breathtaking experience.

Be a part of the history and visit not one but many galleries without leaving your house, which is advisable for now due to Coronavirus pandemic

An app gives us better experience when we can customize the app according to us and create our own filters. Google Arts & Culture app lets you do the same where you can find your favorites, create your own albums, & share with your friends without any hassle. 

Google Arts & Culture App Features

Since the app has collaborated with more than 1200 art galleries & museums, the features are also larger than life. Few of the features really bring the best out of your inner art lover and make you learn something new:

Virtual Reality, virtual tours, exhibits, art recognizer, daily digest, personal collection, & whatnot.

All these features including others make the app one-of-a-kind and let you wander around the museum without any FEES. Yeah!!

You can access the Google Arts & Culture App absolutely free of cost & complete your museum visits without leaving home, being your own guide.

The interactive museum app is compatible with all the considerable mobileOS platforms such as Google Play Store (AndroidOS) & App Store (iOS).

Discover Different Features With Camera Functionality

Since the app is all about giving you virtual tours of museums and making the history accessible to you in video content, the camera plays a big role here. 

Once you have downloaded the app on your cell phone or tab, click on the Camera icon on the homepage of the app. This will give you different options including Art Transfer, Art Selfie, Color Palette, Art Projector, & Pocket Gallery.

Let’s quickly understand what these above functions can transform your total experience using Camera:

1. Art Projector

Art Projector is a function that you need to choose once you hit the camera icon on the app. The function is mainly based on augmented reality that will help you set up your virtual gallery at your place.

Just tap on the option and place the artworks on different places to check how do they look there?

Please know that all the cell phones that do not have augmented reality support, the Art projector option won’t work.

2. Pocket Gallery 

Pocket Gallery is also an option that works on augmented reality, however, the functioning is totally different.

This feature lets you checkout the whole collection of an artist from start to finish. And the USP is that, you will be exploring the details like never before, all thanks to AR.

3. Art Selfie

Art Selfie is a very cool and interesting feature that directly connects to you the history. All you need to do is click your selfie and the Google Arts & Culture app will explore the galleries to find your doppelganger. 

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Art Selfie searches for portraits that are similar to your selfie and mind you, you will encounter some majorly famous artists matching your facial features.

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4. Art Transfer

A very interesting feature, Art Transfer lets you edit your pics in a way that the essence doesn’t go anywhere but you get a whole new look to your pic.

Just select any pic or click one, & follow it by selecting any of the themes suggested below the picture. You can also convert your still pics into GIFs with just a click. 

Later on, you can share the edited pics among your friends and let them know to explore the world.

5. Color Palette

It’s a simple yet cool feature that finds the art for you depending on the colors in your chosen pics. It will open its ocean-of-pics & provide you pictures that relate to the colors and objects in the picture. It’s amazing.

Conclusion

Overall, I loved the app and have started using Art Selfie, Art Transfer, & Color Palette on my cell phone. Soon, I’ll start using Art Projector & check what object looks better at the places I need them.

Don’t wait, just go ahead, download the Google Arts & Culture app & explore your museum experiences without getting out.

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