An application such as Google Arts & Culture has been very popular lately and I think you will be very interested, or there is an opportunity to download it on a PC. I can only say yes, Google Arts and Culture can be installed on a computer.
Many began to use this program very much, far from being due to the fact that many masterpieces of art can be considered in it.
Let's briefly talk about why it became very popular and then we'll talk about the appearance on the PC. It will be useful and interesting.
What's the application?
Google has released this application for a long time and its main task is to help you get acquainted with works of art around the world without visiting any museum. 
You just fire it up and you can even try 3D museum tours. We are living in a very amazing time.
Getting to the point, it became popular because of one function - the search for a double. You take a selfie and then the face search for paintings begins. 
At the end, you see the result, how much you are similar to this or that character from the picture. Very unique, which is why many people are interested in this feature.
What else is possible:
- to consider the exhibit in detail will not be a problem, we zoom in and look at the desired part of the picture;
- there are very unique filters that can be used to make an excellent search;
- there is also a schedule of events that take place near you.
Thus, we get a very cool program that will help develop in a cultural direction and, of course, indulge in various features.
Download Google Arts & Culture to your computer
If you do not have the opportunity to enjoy Google Arts and Culture on your phone, then you can always turn to the web version for help, or simply download the mobile version to your PC. 
If you have Windows 7, 8 or 10, then this is half the battle, because it is on these OS versions that you can install the Android emulator.
Which is simply full of today. In principle, any of them will suit you, because this application does not need much. If anything, here are examples: Memu (www.memuplay.com), BlueStacks (www.bluestacks.com), or Nox App Player (www.bignox.com).
So that you understand what to do, here is a short instruction:
- do the installation of the emulator by first downloading one of the files on the site;
- further launch and here you will need to select the future interface language and, of course, sign in to Google;
- search for "Google Arts & Culture" and install;
- launch.
I can say right away that the search for a double in our countries is not yet available. But an update has recently been released, which made it possible to use this feature in other countries.
So it is quite possible that we will see it soon. Just need to wait a little more for an update.
Results
So this is roughly how you can use Google Arts & Culture on your PC. Whether it's worth it, the choice is yours.
And do not forget that you can use the program on a computer using the web version. It's still in beta testing, but it's already working pretty well.
And look forward to new virtual travels. The weekend is ahead, and I am glad to offer you another great way to spend it with benefit and at the same time improve your cultural level.
Would you like to visit, for example, the Prague Kamp Museum? Or the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam? Or maybe you have not yet been to the Tretyakov Gallery or the Hermitage? No problem - in just a couple of minutes, all this will become real for you!
You will walk through the halls and see beautiful works of art with your own eyes. Sit back, because now I'm going to tell you about a really amazing online service from Google.
is a truly grandiose project that allows a person to visit 17 famous museums in such cities as New York, Berlin, Prague, Amsterdam, Moscow, and others without leaving home.
This service has brought together more than a thousand works of art, making them available from anywhere in the world. According to critics, the virtual museum from Google allows you to move to a "qualitatively new level of preservation and transmission of cultural heritage to future generations."
The creators of this virtual museum service have done a lot of hard work. They transferred to the museum premises the Street View technology they had already tested on the Google Earth project, which allows you to see everything as if you yourself were walking through the halls of the exposition. You can move in all directions, you can move from room to room, you can approach any picture and examine it in the smallest detail.
Opportunities of the virtual museum
Here I would like to stop a little more in detail. The fact is that works of art are shot in the smallest detail: you can see the weakest and most imperceptible strokes of the artist with a brush. Moreover, each museum singled out one painting that was photographed with a resolution of 7,000 megapixels, which is billions of pixels! It seems incredible, but you can really see even the smallest cracks in the canvas! Imagine what a gift this is for special connoisseurs of art!
By pressing the button " i» in the right corner of the virtual museum screen, a panel will open where the following information will be available:
- museum plan
- description of the room where you are now
- information about the painting (title, author, dimensions)
- artist biography
- video about the history of the painting
- interesting historical notes, etc.
For each work of art, you can leave comments, share your impressions, give links to your friends. In general, here you can, opening your mouth in amazement, spend more than one day.
According to Google Vice President of Engineering Nelson Mattos, Google is by no means trying to make a full-fledged alternative to visiting museums in reality. On the contrary, with their project they want to push people to this, because after seeing a picture on a monitor screen, a person will definitely want to see it live with their own eyes.
Needless to say, Google knows how to make high-quality, high-demand products of the highest level! The creators of the Google Art Project intend to gradually add more and more museums of the world to their project. Let's wish them good luck in this - after all, they are doing a project that is really significant for humanity.
Video about how the project was created and what work had to be done to implement it (I recommend watching it):
Friends, did you like this service? Share your impressions in the comments.
Google has acquired an interesting function of comparing photos with the creations of famous artists. With its help, you can find out if you look like a character in a painting or sculpture.
The function is based on face recognition technology and a neural network. The latter will provide a range of options and indicate the percentage of similarity. Often the results are surprisingly accurate, but there are also errors.
At the moment, the function is only available in some regions of the United States, however, with the help of, for example, Turbo VPN, anyone can use it. It is important to specify the USA as your location, and not every server is suitable. Of the tested, the function appears only if you connect to New York.
With Android, everything is simple - download the VPN application and connect to the desired server. With iOS, it’s more complicated: you need to disable your current Apple ID, turn off geolocation, change the language to English and the region to the United States, and only then turn on VPN and Arts & Culture.
The function itself is in the main feed. You just need to rewind down a bit to the offer to find your portrait in the museum.
Now only the lazy haven't posted the news that Google has unveiled a new version of its Arts & Culture app, which was released in 2016. This program for Android and iOS is a window into the world of art. Google has digitized in high resolution a huge number of paintings and other works of art. As part of this initiative, many articles are published and a map of significant cultural sites is provided. A recent update added a fun feature based on a very complex algorithm. Artificial intelligence from a photograph is able to find a picture in which a person similar to you will be depicted.
The problem is that the feature of finding yourself in the picture only works in the US. To get around this limitation, you need to use a VPN. Turbo VPN for Android is perfect for this. Just select the New York, USA server in the application and connect. Then open the Arts & Culture program and scroll down to the section where you will be asked to find yourself in the picture.
While the user interface is extremely simple, Google uses very sophisticated facial recognition algorithms to compare your features to portraits among the 70,000 works of art in the Google Art Project database.
For several years now, there has been an online alternative to real museums - paintings from MOMA, the Louvre, the Victoria and Albert Museum and other famous institutions can be viewed using the Google Art Project. How is this digital “museum” of modernity being formed and how does it affect our perception of art? Luisella Mazza, Program Manager, told Look At Me about this. Google Cultural Academies in Brazil, Italy and Russia, which spoke at the Intermuseum 2014 conference in early June.
Luisella Mazza
Program Manager for Europe at Google Academy of Culture
Why would tech company Google need its own Cultural Academy?
What challenges do you face when digitizing works of art?
One of the biggest challenges is creating high quality gigapixel images. Usually we give museums the opportunity to digitize only one painting from the collection in this quality. However, sometimes we shoot other types of productions that way. For example, we recently published photographs of the ceiling of the Opéra Garnier and it took a long time to work on them. In addition, before we started digitizing, we tested our technology in another building in Madrid to see if we could produce images of the required quality. The ceiling of the Paris Opera is at a height of 18 meters, and the painting is not visible from the hall with the naked eye. We decided to digitize it so that you can see what even the visitors of the opera do not see, and consider everything in the smallest detail. When the project was finished, we were even able to see Chagall's signature in the corner, which was left in 1964, which is incredible for people who didn't have that opportunity before.
Many believe that the Google Art Project is not changing our perception of paintings for the better, because the artists of the past did not expect their paintings to be looked at in such detail.
It's great that the Google Art Project is sparking a debate about how technology is changing the meaning of a work, the idea of a painting, and the artist's intent. But as I have already noted, cultural institutions themselves choose what kind of work they want to digitize, and we fully trust their choice. We only provide technology and a platform, as well as the ability to embed embeds with paintings on the sites of the museums themselves. In addition, we give tools to users: we allow them to compare works, create their own galleries and share them.
How do scientists use the Google Art Project? Do you know of any interesting research?
Comparing paintings and documents from museums and libraries around the world can be a very useful tool. This makes it possible to compare Van Gogh's letter from The Morgan Library & Museum, addressed to Gauguin and containing sketches, with the resulting painting, which is kept in the Van Gogh Museum. These digitized artifacts complement each other and give each other meaning because the writing gives the context in which the painting was created. In the real world, we have no way to compare them because they are in different countries and on different continents. If you, as a scientist, need to compare them, it is not at all easy.
"Wheat Field with Crows", Vincent van Gogh, 1890
Does the Google Academy of Culture do offline projects?
Yes, we participated in the organization of the exhibition dedicated to the work of Van Gogh The Man Suicided by Society at the Musée d'Orsay. One of the paintings, Wheatfield with Crows, painted in 1890, could not be brought to Paris because it was too fragile to be transported from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. That is why the curators replaced the painting with a screen with her photograph, which was created using our technology. This is a good example of how digital versions of paintings can be useful in the real world and in real museums.
In addition, we opened our permanent physical space Lab in Paris in December. This is an experimental cultural platform, there are several projects currently running there: for example, a residence for young artists in collaboration with 89plus - this project promotes artists born after 1989. At the Lab, they work on their digitally inspired projects. The "lab" also has a team of engineers, and in addition, artists can print their works on 3D printers, do laser engraving, etc.
Is the academy concerned with the preservation of digital art, such as the video games of the 1980s or the works of artists who created works for the Internet?
No, but we collect interesting ideas from our partners. If our partners wanted to place such content online, we would definitely listen to them. In addition to photographs, the Google Art Project also publishes videos showing installations and other works of contemporary art, because static images do not convey their essence and the author's ideas.
How will the Academy of Culture develop in the future?
We are constantly coming up with new technologies to help cultural institutions. For example, we recently launched several museum mobile applications at once: we came up with a universal scheme that our partner museums can fill in, so as not to be limited by the experience that their sites provide. So far, several Brazilian museums have had such applications: Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, the Lazar Segal Museum and the São Paulo Museum of Contemporary Art (MAM).
In addition, we are trying to improve our panoramas of the "wonders of the world", created using Google Street View. We recently published a panorama of the Cambodian Angkor Wat temple complex and supplemented it with comments by historians so that users can not only look at this attraction, but also find out all the necessary information about it.
