(Where Meg K. takes you on virtual tour of one of her favorite sites!)

Stuck at home and looking for something to do?  Why not get lost in the endless content on the Google Arts and Culture page?   

No matter what you’re interested in, there is a rabbit hole for you to be sucked into.  Maybe you want to tour the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, or the Louvre in Paris.  You can even zoom into artworks and see the texture of each brush stroke if you want. Maybe you’re more interested in learning about who invented the emoji or the toilet?  Or maybe the history of space exploration is more your cup of tea? In any of these cases, and about a million others, Google’s Arts and Culture project has you covered.    

 I happen to like street art, so I got lost in this section highlighting street art around the world: Street Art.  If you want to jump right to some highlights, here are 9 amazing murals in New York City:  NYC Street Art.

The  Street View  section allows you to explore famous sites and landmarks, so we can all go for a virtual walk without getting off the couch.  Where would you like to start? Amsterdam? Mumbai?  You can also take guided tours in Street View, both of places and of movements.  For example, here’s a guided tour through the history of surfing from the Australian National Surfing Museum: Surf’s Up. 

There really is an overwhelming amount of content there, all organized and curated incredibly well.  You can search for people, historical events, places, cultural and artistic movements, or just by a color you’re interested in.  Go ahead, see what comes up! I’m confident if you give it a 30 second look, you’ll find yourself, 3 hours later, creating your own choreography with a little help from a massive archive of body movements and some machine learning.  (You can find that here if you don’t want to wait: Strike a Pose. 

Here it is one more time – the last link you’ll need to click today: Google Arts and Culture!