The global cultural heritage - The Museum of Arts and Crafts Presents the Google Cultural Institute

You can now go on a virtual tour of the Museum of Arts and Crafts via the Google Cultural Institute, which provides internet users with insight into global cultural heritage and features more than 290 artworks exhibited in one of the oldest museums in Croatia.

If you are a fan of art, you can now view more than 290 selected artworks from the permanent exhibit of the Museum of Arts and Crafts via the internet, presented in cooperation with the Google Cultural Institute. By visiting the page https://www.google.com/cultural institute, you can view high resolution photographs of selected works from the museum’s holdings, as well as read additional information about them from the comfort of your own living room. You can also take a virtual street view stroll through the museum, and click on works you’d like to take a better look at and get more information about them. Selected by the museum’s experts the exhibition which provides internet users with an insight into global cultural heritage and enables the exchange of information between professionals in the cultural sector, will also feature two separate digital exhibitions. With the help of items from the museum’s permanent exhibit, these exhibitions tell the story of the changes between periods and styles, ranging from the gothic period to graphic and product design of the 1990s, as well as the story of one hundred years of the development of wristwatches.

The Museum of Arts and Crafts was founded 136 years ago and its permanent exhibit consists of more than three thousand items, which span various periods and styles from gothic times until present day and stand witness to arts and crafts in Croatia. Take the virtual stroll through the museum, look at the artworks presented by experts of one of the oldest museums in Croatia in cooperation with the Google Cultural Institute, and you may wish to have a look at them in real life as well!

Apart from the presented works from the holdings of the Museum of Arts and Crafts, the exhibition also features 154 works from the Hlebine Gallery of Naïve Art.

Published: 03.02.2016