{"id":11345,"date":"2020-05-20T09:07:42","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T07:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mastercaweb.u-strasbg.fr\/?p=11345"},"modified":"2024-05-09T12:09:34","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T12:09:34","slug":"digital-tool-culture-from-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mastercaweb.unistra.fr\/en\/actualites\/un-categorized\/digital-tool-culture-from-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital tools to experience culture from home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As the rest of the world, you are probably stuck at home because of the global pandemic<\/a>. However what better time to discover new places and cultures around the world!<\/b> But how? You are supposed stay at home. Every museum is closed and there is no way you are getting on a plane very soon. No worries! Some great digital tools<\/strong> allow you to discover art and culture<\/strong> from all around the world while staying at home.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The biggest digital tool: Google Arts & Culture<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The giant Google has used its huge databases and its cutting-edge technology to create a great platform for art-lovers and everyone curious to broaden their general knowledge<\/b>. Google Arts & Culture is a website and an app where you can walk into the<\/span> MOMA<\/span><\/a> in New York thanks to the street view technology and explore its collections. You can time-travel<\/b> to learn more about our ancestors by visiting the<\/span> Chauvet cave<\/span><\/a> with a virtual tour in augmented reality and where you can travel to<\/span> Spain<\/span><\/a> through videos and games showing its diverse culture and a multitude of experiences. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

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Moma in New York photo by Ed Schipul<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Google Arts & Culture has partnerships with the biggest museums in the world<\/b>. They work hand-in-hand to digitize their collections and create new immersive ways to get access to culture for anybody. From your phone, you can get a high-resolution picture of famous paintings, allowing you to zoom in to get the most of the details<\/b>. Google uses extremely powerful art cameras that capture in great detail an art piece and digitize it in an hour. With the experts from the museums, Google makes available to the public wide explanations and information on the artists and the pieces of art.<\/b> <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the house of <\/span>Frida Kahlo<\/span><\/a> or<\/span> Harry Potter<\/span><\/a>, to the <\/span>history of the Mayas<\/span><\/a>, this app has a lot to offer to curious minds. Everything is free, all you need is an Internet access and a screen<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

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Wheelchair in Frida Kahlo’s Blue House in Coyoacan, Mexico City. Photo from Juan Carlos Fonseca Mata<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Other digital initiatives worth mentioning<\/h2>\n\n\n\n