Ministry of Culture partners with Google Arts & Culture through MoU to digitally preserve India's cultural heritage

Key facts

• The Ministry of Culture signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Google Arts & Culture to digitise and share India's cultural heritage using digital tools.
• The MoU was signed at a virtual ceremony in the presence of Culture Secretary Vivek Aggarwal and Google Arts & Culture Vice President and Founder Amit Sood.
• The partnership covers monuments and archaeological sites protected by the Archaeological Survey of India, national museum collections, manuscripts documented under Gyan Bharatam, and crafts, performing arts and living traditions sustained by the Ministry's institutions.
• A central focus is the digitisation of the Yuge Yugeen Bharat Museum, which is taking shape in the North and South Blocks of New Delhi as a museum of India's history across the ages.
• The initiative aims to make India's heritage accessible in Indian languages and on any device.
• Google Arts & Culture has worked with the Ministry's institutions, including the Archaeological Survey of India, the National Museum and the National Gallery of Modern Art, for the past 15 years.