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Fun Things To Do!: Take a Virtual Museum Tour

Visit a museum from your couch, bed, or desk!

Many museums from around the world offer virtual tours of their collections.  Below are few virtual tours and here is a list compiled by the Museum Computer Network (MCN) of online exhibitions, tours, e-Learning resources and more!

British Museum, London

Explore 2 million years of  human history and cultures by exploring the British Museum virtually here.

Porcelain elephant from Japan, Edo Period

Guggenheim Museum, New York

Google’s Street View feature lets visitors tour the Guggenheim’s famous spiral staircase without ever leaving home. From there, you can discover incredible works of art from the Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, Modern and Contemporary eras. Take this link to explore their collections.

Carla Accardi Blue Concentric 1960

Google Arts & Culture

Google Arts & Culture teamed up with over 2500 museums and galleries around the world to bring anyone and everyone virtual tours and online exhibits of some of the most famous museums around the world. Click here to see the collections that are featured. 

North Carolina Art Museum Virtual Resources

Online Resources from the North Carolina Museum of Art:

NCMA Learn offers ideas for stay-at-home family activities or remote learning for all! 

CIRCA, The NCMA Blog offers inspiration from the museum's collections and fun ideas for art projects.

 

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

This famous American art museum features two online virtual tours through Google. The first is an exhibit of American fashion from 1740 to 1895, including renderings of clothes from the colonial and Revolutionary eras. The second is a collection of works from Dutch Baroque painter Johannes Vermeer.

Mary Cassatt The Boating Party 1893/1894

Musée d’Orsay, Paris

See dozens of famous works from French artists who worked and lived between 1848 and 1914. Get a peek at artworks from Monet, Cézanne, and Gauguin, among others here.

George Morren A l’Harmonie (Jardin public)

The Met 360° Project

This award-winning series of six short videos invites viewers around the world to virtually visit The Met's art and architecture in a fresh, immersive way. Created using spherical 360° technology, it allows viewers to explore some of the Museum's iconic spaces as never before.

 

Young Lady in 1866 by Edouard Manet

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul

Google’s virtual tour takes you through six floors of Contemporary art from Korea and all over the globe.

Lotus, Yun Suknam, 2003