We're back! Hope everyone managed to recharge their batteries over the break.

So, what's better than #UoYTips? We'll tell you: #UoYLockdownTips. Every lunchtime we want to give you something to do, or watch, or experience, for free, from your own home.

And the first one is...

Google Arts & Culture!

Now, this isn't *just* for @ArtHistoryYork students (although it is especially fabulous for them).

EVERYONE can get something out of this website, even if you don't have an artistic bone in your body >>> https://artsandculture.google.com 

#UoYLockdownTips

Allow us to show you some of Arts & Culture's features.

For a start, the photography of art works is immense. It allows you to see more than the naked eye allows, like the absolute SPLODGE* of Van Gogh's paint at the end of this vid #UoYLockdownTips

*Albeit vee artistic spodge

The really exciting bit is Google Street View.

Yes that's right, Street View INSIDE galleries and museums! Here we exploring the National Gallery in London, having a lovely old time. #UoYLockdownTips

It's not just galleries and museums, either. You can explore Melbourne Cricket Ground, or The Taj Mahal, or Nina Simone's childhood home, or Hollywood Boulevard...

#UoYLockdownTips

Things start to get really interesting when you download the @googlearts app...

Want to see how works of art would look in your house? No problem. #UoYLockdownTips

(Co-starring Daisy the cat...)

Or project entire 3D structures onto your floor and then explore them virtually... #UoYLockdownTips

Finally for our #UoYLockdownTips on Google Arts & Culture, here’s an entire Tanzanian fort in a kitchen...

We’ll show you something else cool tomorrow lunchtime, and if you have suggestions for this thread we’d love to hear them!