Mission: To help museums and cultural institutions put their collections online and make them more widely accessible to a global audience.

Background: Launched in 2011 with digital reproductions of artworks from seventeen museums, the Google Cultural Institute has grown to include six million works of art from the collections of more than a thousand museums and cultural institutions in seventy countries. Participating institutions include the Academy of Fine Arts and Literature in New Delhi, the Afro Brasil Museum in São Paulo, the DuSable Museum of African American History in Chicago, and the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, as well as cultural sites such as the Palace of Versailles, St. Paul's Cathedral in London, and the Bayon temple in Angkor, Cambodia. The Women in Culture project highlights the far-ranging impact women have had on all aspects of culture, from the contributions of innovative artists and pioneering scientists and technologists to those who campaigned for universal suffrage and social equality. Contributing collections to the project include Bletchley Park, the Clara Barton National Historic Site, the Korean Film Archive, the Museo Frida Kahlo, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts.

Outstanding Web Features: Visitors to the GCI website can browse collections, explore projects (Art Project, Black History and Culture, Historic Moments, Women in Culture, etc.), view featured exhibits, and/or search exhibits by location or institution. Visitors also can examine select works of art at brushstroke-level with "gigapixel" images, "tour" museums via the site's Street View feature, browse special galleries curated by museum directors, or create their own "galleries." Visitors to the Women in Culture project can explore collections highlighting the various artistic, cultural, and social contributions women have made over the centuries; explore galleries featuring works by women artists; or view The Suffragettes: Make More Noise exhibit, which includes photographs, newsreels, and film clips documenting the movement for universal suffrage in the United Kingdom. The site also enables visitors to "compare" two works or documents side by side by dragging and dropping items into a module at the bottom of the page.