Stuck at home? Need a culture fix? Let me take you on a tour of London Museums with Virtual Tours. You don’t need to leave your home to see some the world’s greatest art objects.
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London Museum Virtual Tours
Just because you are not where the museums are there is no reason not to visit a museum. Let’s go on a virtual visit.
British Museum
Pop along to the British Museum website to explore their vast collection. You can either search for objects or be guided by their excellent guides. At some point you will find yourself on the Google Arts and Culture British Museum website that enable you to virtually walk through the galleries. I would recommend starting on the the British Museum website itself as it guides you a little whilst the Google one just dumps you at the front door and expects you to find your own way.
Courtauld Gallery
London’s Courtauld Gallery was the first home of the Royal Academy and is filled with gorgeous paintings. Go on 3D gallery tour of the Courtauld permanent collection and past exhibitions including Monet in London.
National Gallery
London’s National Gallery has a whole Imaginarium lets you explore the national Collection. You can can gaze at the gallery or dive in deep to individual works.
Natural History Museum
The Natural History Museum has 13 tours that you can take online. Including Fantastic Beasts: the Wonder of Nature. If you’ve ever fancied having a David Attenborough take you round the Hintze Hall now is your chance.
Royal Academy
I confess that I’ve never really understood why so much fuss is made about Picasso until I saw Picasso and Paper at the Royal Academy. He just created incredibly images all the time with whatever was to hand and was constantly thinking of new ways to do things. You can explore Picasso and Paper in a virtual tour on the Royal Academy website.
Wallace Collection
The Wallace Collection is one of my favourite museums in the whole wide world. On the Wallace Collection website you can browse the collection clicking on individual works for a closer look. There are also micro sites that offer deep dives into paintings like Frans Hals Laughing Cavalier and Fragonard’s Swing.
Google Arts and Culture
Google has teamed up with 2,500 museums, galleries and places all over the world to create Google Arts and Culture. You can go on Street View style tours of museums. Swoop over Machu Picchu or stroll through the Uffitzi Gallery without having to queue or explore Scott’s hut in Antartica. All those books that I intended to read whilst the museums are shut? I can see that I will be spending hours visiting all the galleries I really, really want to travel to but don’t have enough time or money to get to.
Which Museums with Virtual Tours are your favourite?
Such a good idea. It is great to keep ourselves and our minds occupied during this social physical distancing time.
Love this I’d def be exploring them!
Enjoy, there is so much to be seen out there
Catherine this is such a good idea. As you know history of art is my passion!
Thank you enjoy your virtual visiting
Ah what an amazing list! I have been to a few of these but not all! Think it is great that museums are offering virtual experiences during this lockdown.
I agree they are doing fabulous stuff on social media too
This is a great idea. It could be a fun idea for parents to incorporate into home schooling too!
Virtual museums would be an excellent inclusion to home schooling
Thanks for putting this collection together. I definitely plan to use some of these links as part of our home schooling journey. #culturedkids
Home schooling certainly makes you appreciate teachers!
Isn’t it wonderful that so many of the great museums and art galleries have opened themselves on the internet this way. I hadn’t heard of that museum of the world, do thanks for sharing this great list #CulturedKids
It is incredible what you can see from the comfort of your armchair
I’ve been to quite a few of those. I might revisit without the crowds ;) #Culturedkids
It feels like a private curator tour
Love the collection, thank you so much Catherine! The Hermitage is on my wishlist for the Easter week-end and I bet on the Egyptian collection from Louvre for the boys! Great #CulturedKids inspiration as always, stay safe and well! X
How fabulous that all of these are available from the comfort of your sofa? I hope to check a few of them out over the coming weeks. I hope you are keeping well x #CulturedKids
We are all well and culturally occupied!
I’m really enjoying these virtual tours, I spent a good hour or two on Google Arts exploring places all over the world. Great list, Catherine #culturedkids
It’s really impressive what some of the museums are doing, isn’t it?! #CulturedKids
Really impressive, some have them have really embraced the virtual museum thing