A wide range of museums offer virtual tours. Visit these amazing places from the comfort of your sofa.
Google Arts & Culture has partnered with over 500 museums and galleries around the world. The featured collections vary depending on the museum, but most include online exhibits, a “street view” that lets you explore inside the institution itself, as well as galleries of the artwork, where you can deep dive into paintings.
If you’re not sure where to start, Google curated a handy shortlist of their top 10 virtual museums.
1) The British Museum, London
2) Guggenheim Museum, New York
3) Musée d’Orsay, Paris
4) National Museum of Modern & Contemporary Art, Seoul
5) Pergamon Museum, Berlin
6) Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
7) The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
8) Uffizi Gallery, Florence
9) MSP, São Paulo
10) National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City
Google’s The Open Heritage series is another way to explore lesser-known and endangered historical and cultural gems from around the world. The up-close look offers incredibly detailed visuals and historical accounts of sites that are difficult to access, coronavirus or no—including 12th-century Syrian baths, Native American cliff dwellings at Mesa Verde, and the Peruvian ceremonial site Chavín de Huántar.
