Stuck at Home? These 12 Famous Museums Offer Virtual Tours You Can Take on Your Couch

Travel + Leisure ^ | 3/12/2020 | Andrea Romano

[Oshkalaboomboom]

Going into a self-quarantine can have many complex issues and complications beyond having enough food and supplies for two weeks. In terms of entertainment, it also probably means you’re in for a lot of boredom, a lot of Netflix, and a lot of browsing the internet.

But there is a way to get a little culture and education while you’re confined to your home. According to Fast Company, 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..

Now, you get “go to the museum” and never have to leave your couch.

Google Arts & Culture’s collection includes the British Museum in London, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, the Guggenheim in New York City, and literally hundreds of more places where you can gain knowledge about art, history, and science. This collection is especially good for students who are looking for ways to stay on top of their studies while schools are closed.

[cyclotic]

We live only an hour away and have a membership. I’ve only been there once and found it amazing.

[Savage Beast]

You’ll get there, Guen. Take advantage of the economic boom once this is all over.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Bkmk

[bravo whiskey]

Too bad the Hermitage in St. Petersburg is not on the list.

[Guenevere]

Thank you for your kind regard.......
.....but I think I’ve lost my nerve for adventures/traveling....

Very kind of you though, very kind

[Savage Beast]

I know what you mean. I don't have any real desire to travel myself, but I love traveling with my wife and children.

I have a son and a daughter and four grandchildren.

Last summer, we took all the grandchildren and our daughter to Greece and Italy. It was fabulous--because of the children. The National Museum in Athens is fabulous (my third trip through).

The summer before that, we took all the children to London and Paris. Fabulous also! The British Museum is one of my favourites. I particularly love the Elgin Marbles.

Such trips exhaust my wife and me, but it's so wonderful with the children--and so good for them.

But I well understand your reluctance to venture forth.

[Guenevere]

We were scheduled (reservations made) to take our granddaughter ( and Mommy( our daughter) & Daddy) to DC in June.......do the whole grand tour and stay in an historic hotel

sigh

The hotel can be cancelled......the airline?

[Vaduz]

To bad the Peterson museum isn’t on the list.

[tired&retired]

I spent Easter Weekend there last year, and joined.

Went to Easter Sunrise service at the Lincoln Memorial. Was surprised that it was packed.

[tired&retired]

I stay at the Holiday Inn next to the Museum of the Bible. Free parking, great buffet breakfast included, and close to the mall.

[tired&retired]

Your wish happened

https://www.hermitagemuseum.org/wps/portal/hermitage/panorama/virtual_visit/panoramas-m-1/!ut/p/z1/jY9BDoIwEEXPwgHIFATUZa0xiJLGRLF2Q2YjTgKFQGXh6W2MGxeis5vk_Td_QIMCbXCkCi21Bmu3X3RSSs6TYCZYtiiiOeNLnq6zA4tXmwTOL4B9Gc5A_5OfAPS0Pvt1wH0Q9rnIK9Ad2ptP5tqCGqm3d6zLkQayoDo0bY8NDn7jB66T_rTK7c5Z5TFOpSxEKKI3MNGra07qsU8Zcc97Aid38vQ!/dz/d5/L2dBISEvZ0FBIS9nQSEh/?lng=&lng=

[PLMerite]

There's also the Mutter Museum of The College of Physicians in Philadelphia:

http://muttermuseum.org/

Where you can see the world's largest preserved human colon:

Background: mega-colon.

Foreground: mega-colon plush toy available at gift shop.

[SunkenCiv]

Here are the other GGG topics introduced since the previous Digest ping, nice long list for the first time in a long while:

• 101-year-old Italian man born during Spanish flu pandemic survives coronavirus, official says [2020]
• 1756: Veronika Zeritschin, the last witch executed in Germany [2020]
• April 1, 1973: The Wreck of the SS Atlantic [2020]
• Archaeological Views: Jewish Graffiti -- Glimpsing the Forgotten Lives of Antiquity [2020]
• Archaeologists find China's earliest urban drainage system(1/4) [2020]
• Bizarre life-forms found thriving in ancient rocks beneath the seafloor [2020]
• Bone analyzes tell about kitchen utensils in the Middle Ages [copper] [2020]
• Brick by Brick: What did the Israelites build in Egypt? [2020]
• Direct human ancestor Homo erectus is older than we thought [2020]
• The equinox reveals one of the secrets of Egypt's iconic Sphinx [2020]
• The Extremely Fast Peopling of the Americas Two genetic studies show how the first Native Americans spread through their new continent with incredible speed. [2020]
• Great Plague of 1665-1666 How did London respond to it? [2020]
• How the black death changed the world [2020]
• It's the anniversary of the 1066 Battle of Hastings: history, videos, maps, and links [2017]
• 'Men of Judah' in the 14th Century B.C.E.? Is this the earliest reference to the tribe of Judah? [2020]
  • The Creation of a Lie [Temple Mount construction] [2007]
  • Islamic Waqf Takes Advantage of Temple Mount Closure to Conduct Illegal Digs [2020]
  • Jordanian Monarch Warns of Israeli Constructions beneath Al-Aqsa Mosque (King Abdullah II) [2007]
  • Temple Mount Collapse Imminent [2004]
• New lease of life for 1,600 rare manuscripts [palm-leaf manuscripts] [2020]
• Photographic record of the death and funeral of President US Grant [2020]
• Remains of 90-million-year-old rainforest found near South Pole [2020]
• A Roman Figurine from the Boyne Valley [2020]
• Tree rings could pin down Thera volcano eruption date [2020]
• What Social Distancing Looked Like in 1666 [2020]
• "Work of Every Description Ceased" ~ First hand accounts of the Plague of Justinian, 6th century AD [2020]
• New Guinea's Neolithic period may have started without outside help [2020]
• The world's oldest man was forced to cancel his 112th birthday party because of coronavirus [2020]
• The Worst Diseases in Shakespeare's England [2020]

some stuff from the FRchives, two of which were just added to the keyword and could be in the list for this week:

• 1,000-year-old onion and garlic eye remedy kills MRSA [2015]
• 1,000-Year-Old Saxon Remedy Kills Superbugs [2015]
• Anglo-Saxon cow bile and garlic potion kills MRSA [2015]
• Medieval Potion Kills Superbug MRSA Better Than Antibiotic Vancomycin [2015]
• Medieval Potion Kills Superbug MRSA Better Than Antibiotic Vancomycin [2015]
• Thousand-year-old Anglo-Saxon recipe kills MRSA superbug [2015]

a couple of related sidebars:

• Online Calculator Predicts Weight Gain During Isolation
• Online calculator shows how much food you need for a 14-day quarantine so you can stop panic buying

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Oshkalaboomboom.

[Guenevere]

I really enjoyed Museum of the Bible last year

[Albion Wilde]

Ping!

[V K Lee]

Thanks!

Let us not forget the US National Parks, Marvelous Mother Nature.
These can be visited virtually as well.

https://www.travelzoo.com/blog/the-best-national-parks-to-visit-virtually/?utm_source=newsflash_us&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2871550_html_-_deal%3a2871550&utm_content=2871550&ec=0&dlinkId=2871550

[Albion Wilde]

Cool link; thanks!

[Starstruck]

Bump

[Savage Beast]

I had similar plans that were interrupted. The airlines said that we could reschedule the flights when this is all over at no additional cost.

Do you suppose you might take your children to London at some time in the future? When the austerity is over and the boom is on?