With its Cultural Institute, Google has brought the street view mentality to the art and museum world, allowing users to travel around the globe to see hundreds of collections and archives without ever leaving the couch. The cultural hotspots are divided into the categories: âArt Project,â âHistoric Momentsâ and âWorld Wonders,â each offering different ways to interact virtually. Itâs the next best thing to being there.
Tour the lava tubes on this South Korean island and World Heritage Site .Â
Walk up to the Great Sphinx and gaze at the Great Pyramids in Cairo.
Get a fish-eye view of the most extensive coral reef system in the world .Â
Peep a 360-degree view at the top of the snow-covered mountains.
Take a drive down legendary Route 66 .
Examine dozens of 3D animal skulls âfrom the California Grizzly to the Amazon River Dolphin.
Step inside Fordâs Theatre , view artifacts like John Wilkes Booth's derringer, and get a history of the building itself and the fateful night that put it in the history books.
See the evolution of the spacesuit at this Russian manufacturing organization .
Experience Brazilian street art firsthand, then see how the rest of the world does graffiti. The database includes collections from Slovakia, Thailand, South Africa, Sweden, the UK, and many others.
Neither Rome nor the Eiffel Tower was built in a day, and this digital exhibit walks you through the entire process with stories, drawings, and amazing photographs of the tower as it was built . Â
From the Museum Victoria, this exhibit contains images that show in stunning detail a variety of natural history illustrations from 1850 to 1900 .
If you prefer the real thing when it comes to the natural world, the Queensland Museum has the F.P & A.P. Dodd Collection of Tropical Insects from Australia and New Guinea with elaborately arranged cases of colorful beetles and butterflies . Â Â
Jump from room to room and floor to floor in an empty, virtual version of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City . You might want to start on the 5th floor, which is where The Starry Night  resides.Â
If people are your passion, scope the collection at the National Portrait Gallery .
The closest thing to an internet art museum, the Art Project page on the Cultural Institute site is a gallery of high quality images from around the world , across time and medium. If you see something you like, it will even suggest others you might be interested inâkind of like shopping for art.
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