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Google Arts & Culture Launches 350 Online Exhibitions on Human Inventions

digital · 2026-05-04

Google Arts & Culture has launched 'Once Upon a Try,' a major multimedia project celebrating human inventions and discoveries. The online exhibition, created in collaboration with over 110 institutions from 23 countries (including 10 Italian ones), features 350 interactive exhibitions exploring innovations from Galileo's celestial observation tools to the Hubble Space Telescope, Marconi's radio, and the ice cream cone patent. Thousands of historical documents, images, texts, and videos have been digitized. The project also includes a new augmented reality app on the Big Bang, developed by CERN in collaboration with Google, offering a 360° journey narrated by Tilda Swinton. Amit Sood, director of Google Arts & Culture, stated that the project highlights the first attempts and ideas that make dreams come true, hoping to inspire people to reach their own eureka moment.

Key facts

  • Google Arts & Culture launched 'Once Upon a Try' online exhibition.
  • The project involves over 110 institutions from 23 countries.
  • 10 Italian institutions participated.
  • 350 interactive online exhibitions are included.
  • Topics range from Galileo's instruments to the Hubble Space Telescope, Marconi's radio, and the ice cream cone patent.
  • Thousands of historical documents, images, texts, and videos were digitized.
  • A new augmented reality app on the Big Bang was developed by CERN with Google.
  • The AR app is narrated by Tilda Swinton.

Entities

Artists

  • Tilda Swinton

Institutions

  • Google Arts & Culture
  • CERN

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