Technology giant Google has launched the largest ever online exhibition about inventions and discoveries.
The project, called 'Once Upon a Try', showcases 350 interactive exhibitions by 110 institutions from 23 countries around the world.
Highlights include a 'Big Bang' augmented reality app developed by CERN and narrated by actor Tilda Swinton, a 360-degree tour of the Space Shuttle Discovery by the astronauts that once flew it, and Google Street View on the International Space Station (ISS).
People can also explore NASA's archive of 127,000 historic images with a new tool called NASA's Visual Universe.
An example of images from Big Bang AR app | Image: GoogleUsers can also meet the pioneering female palaeontologist who discovered the pterodactyl, discover how a freak accident led to the discovery of x-rays and find out who invented the emoji.
The exhibitions come in a range of formats: from augmented reality apps and 360-degree YouTube videos, to Street View and high resolution interactive images.
People can also zoom into 200,000 artifacts in high definition, like the first map of the Americas and Saturn and its 62 moons.
More than 110 science and tech partners of Google Arts & Culture - as well as curators, young scientists and YouTubers - guide users through thousands of years of life-changing innovations, introduce the people and processes behind the breakthroughs, and give a glimpse of what is in store for the future.
Main image: Google Streetview of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research | Image: Google
