It looks like several Korean natural history museums have had their collections added to Google's online exhibitions.
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| 국립해양생물자원관, the National Marine Biodiversity Institute of Korea, featured in Google Ats & Culture |
Earlier this year, Google released a service called "Google Arts & Culture" to help bring museum collections online. They'd already included a lot of artworks, and now added natural history exhibits.
Starting today, anyone, anywhere can explore this world on Google Arts & Culture. We’ve partnered with 50+ of the world’s leading natural history institutions to bring this lost world to life again online. More than 150 interactive stories from experts, 300,000 new photos and videos, and more than 30 virtual tours await you...
[Official Google Blog: An extinct world brought back to life with Google Arts & Culture]
Blotter pointed out that several Korean natural history museum collections are now featured there, including:
- Gwacheon National Science Museum (국립과천과학관), in, you got it, Gwacheon
- National Institute of Biological Resources (국립생물자원관), in Incheon
- National Marine Biodiversity Institute of Korea (국립해양생물자원관), in Seocheon
- Seodaemun Museum of Natural History (서대문자연사박물관), in Seoul
These collections seems to be fully documented in both Korean and English. You can change the language just by tweaking the URL. The links above are for English. Browse around all the neat specimens. I like this fish (apparently called a Lagocephalus lagocephalus oceanicus, or somehow simply 꺼끌복), because I feel like he looks like me.
The most fun, of course, is actually wandering around the museum grounds themselves, street-view style.
Happy exploring.
UPDATE 2016-11:
Google have also added works from artist Yoo Young-kuk (유영국). See their blog post about it (in Korean) here:
Google 한국 블로그: '한국 추상화의 선구자' 유영국 작가의 작품을 더 가까이 만나보세요
And see their entry for Yoo and his work here:
유영국 - Google Arts & Culture
UPDATE 2016-11:
Google have also added works from artist Yoo Young-kuk (유영국). See their blog post about it (in Korean) here:
Google 한국 블로그: '한국 추상화의 선구자' 유영국 작가의 작품을 더 가까이 만나보세요
And see their entry for Yoo and his work here:
유영국 - Google Arts & Culture
For a primer on his abstract style and the importance of his work in Korea's modern history, see these articles:
- Art of Yoo Young-kuk revisited
- For Yoo Young-kuk bold abstractions were works of precision-INSIDE Korea JoongAng Daily
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