Interior of British Museum Now Visible in Google Street View

British Museum Exhibits Viewable Online Thanks to Google Partnership

Google Cultural Institute digitises nearly 5,000 objects to allow virtual tour of museum

Mark Brown | November 12, 2015

From the Carnelian seal-stone of the Vehdin-Shapur to a 20th-century squirrel parka worn by the Yup’ik of Alaska, the British Museum and Google have announced details of a digital partnership allowing people to view in detail nearly 5,000 objects online.
The project is one of the biggest yet by the Google Cultural Institute which, since 2011, has been putting museum collections online and using its Street View technology to allow virtual tours.

Google employee photgraphing exhibits at the British Museum. Source: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/nov/12/british-museum-google-cultural-institute-virtual-tour

<more at http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/nov/12/british-museum-google-cultural-institute-virtual-tour; related links: https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/u/0/home (Google Cultural Insitute) and https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/collection/the-british-museum (Museum View - Google Cultural Institute)>