Virtual Vacations

With the shelter in, many institutions have closed. But thankfully, living in the digital age has also allow many of them to provide virtual tours of their spaces. I have compiled a list of some virtual tours, many are museums, but there are also monuments, and live cams of national parks, aquariums, and zoos!

MUSEUMS

Virtual Museum Tours

These are museums that let you virtually wall their halls! For online collections only, see the category below.

• Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum – New York, USA
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art – New York, USA
• The American Museum of Natural History – New York, USA
• The Frick Collection – New York, USA
• The National Museum of Natural History – Washington DC, USA
• The J. Paul Getty Museum – Los Angeles, USA
• The Field Museum – Chicago, USA
• The Art Institute of Chicago – Chicago, USA
• The Adler Planetarium – Chicago, USA
• NASA Glenn Research Center – Columbus, USA
• NASA Langley Research Center – Hampton, USA
• The Museum of Fine Arts – Boston, USA
• The National Aquarium – Baltimore, USA
•  Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand – São Paulo, Brazil
• Musée d’Orsay – Paris, France
• The Louvre – Paris, France (Need to allow Flash in your browser)
• The British Museum – London, UK (Exterior)
• The British Museum – London, UK (Interior)
• Rijksmuseum – Amsterdam, Netherlands
• The Van Gogh Museum – Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Pergamom Museum – Berlin, Germany
• The Uffizi Gallery– Florence, Italy
• Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza – Madrid, Spain
• National Museum of Modern & Contemporary Art – Gwacheon-si, Korea

Digital Museum Collections

Look at thousands of works on display in institutions around the world!

• Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum – New York, USA
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art – New York, USA
• The American Museum of Natural History – New York, USA
• The Whitney Museum of American Art – New York, USA
• The Museum of the City of New York – New York, USA
• The New York Historical Society – New York, USA
• The Frick Collection – New York, USA
• The Cooper Hewitt Museum – New York, USA
• The Museum of Modern Art – New York, USA
• The Museum of Arts and Design – New York, USA
• The Brooklyn Museum – Brooklyn, USA
• The National Gallery of Art – Washington DC, USA
• The Smithsonian Institution – Washington DC, USA 
• The J. Paul Getty Museum of Art – Los Angeles, USA
• The Museum of Contemporary Art – Los Angeles, USA
• Musée d’Orsay – Paris, France
• The British Museum – London, UK (interactive History)
• The British Museum – London UK (Virtual Collections)
• Rijksmuseum – Amsterdam, Netherlands
• The Uffizi Gallery – Florence, Italy

MONUMENTS & PARKS

Egyptian Antiquities Authority’s Virtual Tours

Travel to Egypt for a little while and explore the tombs and building scanned with modern 3D scanning techniques!

• G 7530-7540 – The Mastaba of Meresankh III – Giza
• TT69 – The Tomb of Menna  – Thebes
• KV9 – Tomb of Rameses VI  – Valley of the Kings
• The Red Monastery – Sohag
• Ben Ezra Synagogue – Cairo
• Mosque-Madrassa of Sultan Barquq – Cairo

The Vatican Museum

Offers virtual visits to the Vatican in Rome

Live Cams

Live Cams from Zoos, Aquariums, and National Parks!

• Bronx Zoo – Bronx, USA
• Monterey Bay Aquarium – Monterey, USA
• Georgia Aquarium – Atlanta, USA
• Zoo Atlanta Panda Cam – Atlanta, USA
• Houston Zoo – Houston, USA
• San Diego Zoo – San Diego, USA
• National Aquarium – Baltimore, USA
• Channel Islands National Park – California, USA
• Yellowstone National Park – Idaho/Montana/Wyoming, USA
• Katmai National Park – Alaska, USA