Google's Cultural Institute, a not-for-profit arm of the search giant, is partnering with the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute, the Kyoto Costume Institute and one museums around the world in order to digitise archives of garments and fashions. The initiative is called We Wear Culture and the store of digitised images it generates will be used to stage online exhibitions and improve the virtual walkthroughs of museum collections in Google Street View.
Google's Cultural Institute, a not-for-profit arm of the search giant, is partnering with the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute, the Kyoto Costume Institute and more than 170 museums around the world in order to digitise archives of garments and fashions. The initiative is called We Wear Culture and the store of digitised images it generates will be used to stage online exhibitions and improve the virtual walkthroughs of museum collections in Google Street View.