Google Cultural Institute: Eiffel Tower's Inauguration and First Visitors

Explore four online exhibits detailing the story behind the construction of the Eiffel Tower. The story is told using an array of documents and photos.

Art Project is a part of the Google Cultural Institute. View individual pieces of art in detail with the close-up tool. View collections from museums around the world, and even get 360 degree views of artworks within those museums....

This visual website from Google Cultural Institute shares background information and photos about Albert Bierstadt.

In this pictorial essay, follow the construction of the Eiffel Tower that took just two years, two months and five days to build.

Students examine the cultural tradition of storytelling. For this storytelling lesson, students explore stories from 3 different cultures and evaluate the roles that storytelling plays in each of the cultures to pass on values and beliefs.

Take a virtual tour of the Acropolis Museum in Greece, which documents the history of Athens back to prehistoric times. The first and third floors can be explored, as well as a collection of high-quality photographs of sculptures and...

Pictorial narrative of the history of the Horn Violin and its usuage today primarily in the Bihor region of Rumania.

Online exhibition showcases the digitalization and restoration of pre-war Polish films so that they can be viewed today.

The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam houses the largest collection of artworks by Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) in the world. The permanent collection includes over 200 paintings by Vincent van Gogh, 500 drawings, and more than 750 letters....

Manuscript artworks accompanied by descriptions that were part of a museum art exhibit on Medieval and Renaissance food. The exhibit looked at how food was portrayed in art from those times.