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THROUGH HISTORY
Available now on
the Google Arts &
Culture website
and app
EXPLORING THE
MAYA WORLD
Journey into the past with this unique online exhibit, which is
preserving Maya cultural heritage for generations to come
Over 100 years later, the British Museum
etween the 1880s and 1890s, British and Google Arts & Culture have partnered up are nine new curated online exhibitions, over
All images © British Museum and Google Arts & Culture Bheritage. Developing the first glass plate The Maya World, to bring Maudslay’s which offers a behind-the-scenes look at the
explorer Alfred Maudslay travelled
650 assets including photographs, journals,
artefacts and drawings, and a documentary
to launch a new online exhibition, Exploring
across Mexico and Central America,
studying and documenting ancient Maya
exhibition. Thanks to modern technology, you
indispensable work to the world. The British
can explore 200 3D models that have been
photographs of famous sites such as Chichen
Museum’s rarely seen collection has been
Itza and creating over 400 plaster casts
digitally reassembled from Maudsley’s plaster
digitised and made accessible for the first
of Maya art, inscriptions and monuments,
time, bringing the fascinating untold stories
casts, as well as take a 360° tour of the ancient
Maudslay left behind a legacy that has proved
of the Maya civilisation to life. Among the
Maya city of Palenque – all within the comfort
86 vital to Mesoamerican research and scholars. many features of Exploring The Maya World of your own home.
