Google's Cultural Institute expanded its work with museums, foundations and other archives to bring online 42 new historical exhibitions which help tell the stories of several major events taking place over the past century. Working with 17 partners on this latest effort, the online exhibitions debuting today include stories of Apartheid, D-Day, and the Holocaust told through letters, photos, video and other documents.
The exhibitions are housed at the Cultural Institute's website, which is the site where Google organizes and features these historical and immersive collections of manuscripts, old photographs, artifacts, and videos related to historical events. As with Google's efforts to digitize the Dead Sea Scrolls, you can zoom in and out on the photos on the site as well as search across the archive for specific persons, places, events or dates.
Today's new additions include the following, Google announced via blog post this morning:
Google has a history of working with museums to expand its own content archives. This summer, the company announced it would offer indoor Google Maps for dozens of museums across the U.S., for example. It also offers Google Art Project, which allows visitors to virtually explore art from museums around the world through high-res photos.
This story originally appeared in TechCrunch.
