Get freedom from your phone’s obvious limitations. Use Google Arts & Culture, made by Google LLC, a Education app on your PC or Mac with BlueStacks, and level up your experience.
Google Arts & Culture feels like a huge museum and library stitched together, only it sits on a screen and keeps tossing up things to explore. On a PC with BlueStacks it is nice to have the big view, because zooming into paintings shows all the tiny cracks and brush marks that get lost on a phone. There are little walkaround galleries where someone can look left and right, step closer to a sculpture, then jump to a different room. Street View and 360 videos let them poke around famous places without dealing with crowds. The app mixes art, history, science, music, food, all sorts of stuff, so it never feels stuck in one lane.
The playful tools are what make it stick. The selfie matcher hunts for old portraits that resemble a face and it is weirdly entertaining. Photo effects can restyle a snapshot to look like a classic artwork, and there is a color search that finds paintings based on the shades in a photo. There is an option that shows how big an artwork really is, useful when a picture on a screen hides scale. Camera-based features may need a webcam, and some museum recognition tricks only work in certain places, but when they do it is neat. People can follow curated exhibits, save favorites into little collections, and get weekly highlights. There is a Nearby tab for finding museums, a translate button for articles in other languages, and sign-in if someone wants to keep their picks across devices. Location and storage permissions are used for those parts, nothing too wild.
BlueStacks gives you the much-needed freedom to experience your favorite apps on a bigger screen. Get it now.
