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Culture Ministry signs pact with Google Arts & Culture to digitise India’s heritage

The partnership includes the planned Yuge Yugeen Bharat Museum and manuscripts documented under Gyan Bharatam.

By BDT News Desk

Published 6 Nov 2026, 6:38 AM IST · 1 min read

MINISTRY OF CULTURE SIGNS MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING WITH GOOGLE ARTS & CULTURE TO DIGITISE AND SHARE INDIA’S CULTURAL HERITAGE
MINISTRY OF CULTURE SIGNS MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING WITH GOOGLE ARTS & CULTURE TO DIGITISE AND SHARE INDIA’S CULTURAL HERITAGE Photo: PIB

The Ministry of Culture has signed a memorandum of understanding with Google Arts & Culture to digitise India's cultural heritage and make it available online in Indian languages and on any device.

The MoU was signed at a virtual ceremony on Thursday in the presence of Culture Secretary Vivek Aggarwal and Amit Sood, Vice President and Founder of Google Arts & Culture.

What will be covered

The partnership spans monuments and archaeological sites protected by the Archaeological Survey of India and the collections they hold, the holdings of national museums, manuscript heritage being documented under Gyan Bharatam, and crafts, performing arts and living traditions supported by the ministry's institutions.

A centrepiece is the Yuge Yugeen Bharat Museum, being built in the North and South Blocks in New Delhi as a museum of India's history. Its digitisation will create a record of the buildings and the artefacts they will house.

What officials said

Aggarwal called India's heritage "a living inheritance" and said the partnership would help document, preserve and share it. Google Arts & Culture has worked with the Archaeological Survey of India, the National Museum and the National Gallery of Modern Art for years, the ministry noted.

The release does not give a timeline, budget or the first collections to go online.

Photos

Photo: PIB

Photo: PIB

Photo: PIB

Photo: PIB

Source: official release by the Ministry of Culture, issued through the Press Information Bureau, Government of India (05 NOV 2026 7:33PM by PIB Delhi). Read the full official text: MINISTRY OF CULTURE SIGNS MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING WITH GOOGLE ARTS & CULTURE TO DIGITISE AND SHARE INDIA’S CULTURAL HERITAGE.

How we verified this

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Every fact, figure and quotation is taken from the official PIB release (Release ID 2333271) issued by the Ministry of Culture on 05 NOV 2026 7:33PM by PIB Delhi; checked against the source on publication. Story written by BDT from that release; no outside facts added.

Fact-checked by Hemant Sharma on 6 Nov 2026, 6:38 AM IST.

Sources

  1. 1.MINISTRY OF CULTURE SIGNS MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING WITH GOOGLE ARTS & CULTURE TO DIGITISE AND SHARE INDIA’S CULTURAL HERITAGE — Press Information Bureau, Government of India

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