Travel From Home: Explore A Virtual Museum!
During this difficult time of travel bans and social distancing, be sure to take advantage of the iconic museums around the world that are offering free virtual tours.
Obviously, a virtual tour is not the same as experiencing the city and exploring different exhibits in person. However, these virtual museum tours provide a great opportunity for home travel!
You can explore a number of virtual museum tours from the comfort of your couch, even while wearing pajamas. So grab your family and some snacks and enjoy these boredom busting virtual tours.
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Museum Tours at Home
Here are some renowned museums that are offering virtual tours:
Guggenheim Museum in New York City
Musée du Louvre in Paris, France
The National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.
The British Museum in London, England
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City
The Vatican Museums in Rome, Italy
More Museums
But that’s not all! Click to access the numerous virtual museum tours that are being offered through Google Arts & Culture. My favorite one is The NASA Museum in Washington, D.C.
Which virtual museum tour did you enjoy the most? Let us know in a comment below!
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That’s a good idea to have virtual tours of the museums
I love this concept. I haven’t done one of the virtual tours yet but It’s on my list.
Perfect! I hope you find a virtual museum tour you love.
This is awesome. I have to add it to my list of virtual tours.
I’m happy to help. Enjoy!
We haven’t done this yet, but it’s on my list of things to do – I figured we can mirror it to our TV and all enjoy it on the big screen.
Absolutely! Big screen watching would be great for the whole family.
I could watch the virtual tour of The Louvre all day!
Oh, yes, you and me both!
It’s fun revisiting museums I’ve already been and seeing new ones.
Sweet! I’m glad to help share the virtual museum love.
I’m loving all these virtual opportunities that people are sharing. It’s nice to have little exotic field trips each day.
It is amazing the great places we can see via virtual tours.
Ordinarily a virtual museum visit is not something I would be interested in – I would much rather go and visit in person. But since we’re not allowed to travel right now I’m thankful that so many places are offering virtual visits as an option. It’s a nice change of pace from being home all day, and something the kids enjoy too. I have 4 kids (age 3-11) and it’s hard finding something that will please everyone.
Yes, virtual museum tours can be incorporated in to homeschooling lessons. There are so many ways these tours could be a learning tool.
It’s amazing what virtual tours we can take now. Even if you don’t travel, these are great!
Sounds interesting, I haven’t tried one. Might be fun to revisit one I have already been to before!
Yes! Pick your favorite or a new museum altogether. Enjoy!
Agreed!
These all look fabulous…I’m going to have to draw to see which tour to do first.
Good plan!
Such a great resource to have now! Thanks!
I’m happy to help Cathy!
I have been enjoying virtual tours. Thank you for the additional suggestions.
You’re welcome!
All the great museums are available! It’ll be a nice break from Netflix
Yes! I’m about out of shows I want to binge watch and these virtual museum tours are a great way to see the cool artifacts, art, and everything else they house right now.
Thank you for this list! It’s so helpful to have the all compiled together. My favorite in person museum is the National Gallery of Art, so I’m so glad they are doing virtual tours.
The National Gallery of Art is a great one to visit. Enjoy!
I love all of these places and have been to many so it is a nice memory to see them again.
Sweet! Thanks Lisa.
I think it’s so cool that these museums offer virtual tours! Thanks for sharing!
You’re welcome Sydney. I’m happy to help!
These look so great! Definitely going to have to take advantage of some of these!
Thanks Jill. I hope you find one or more that you love.
Great i formation so you can travel virtually!
Yes, fun times via all virtual tours. Who would have thought? I’m hoping we can get back to traveling again soon.
So many great museums are offering virtual tours. It’s a great way to see some amazing art and spaces while we can’t travel.
Yes! These have always been out there but honestly, I never looked in to them before. Virtual tours are a great way to see places until we can travel again.
This is amazing! Thanks for sharing, I definitely want to go check a few of these out.
You’re welcome! I hope you find a museum virtual tour that you love.
Good to know that works too! I learn so much from you as well! Keep it up great post.
Thanks! I’m always happy to help.
My children, and I, have been having so much fun taking part in these virtual tours. It’s pretty amazing to get to “see” a place from your living room. Your list contains a few that I didn’t know about, so thank you!
Exploring virtual museums is a great idea. I will have my girls check out the ones in NY. We were planning a trip this summer, so this will be great!