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Resources to keep you entertained

Hopefully, you are continuing to be healthy and safe. Do you miss “doing stuff” after work and on weekends? With somany venues and events being closed or canceled right now, many organizations are filling the gap with expanded “virtual experiences” so that you can enjoy some of their offerings while sheltering in place. We’ve come across abunch of these and wanted to share the links with those of you that may be developing “cabin fever” while you work remotely and practice social distancing.
Since so many places are doing this globally, it’s a chance to “tour” places you wouldn’t usually be able to visit, like the Louvre or British Museum. It’s not quite the real thing, but some of these “virtual experiences” are pretty immersive – it almost feels as though you have really “gone” somewhere. You may like to try viewing one of these at the same time as a friend or family member and Face Time or text as you are “virtually experiencing”. Enjoy - and please take care!

NYC VIRTUAL TOURS

www.youvisit.com/tour/nyc?pl www.scholasticatravel.com/2016/03/09/new-york-city-virtual-tours/

DIGITAL MUSEUM TOURS

The Met

https://www.metmuseum.org

Museum of Natural History

www.amnh.org

The Whitney

https://whitney.org

Tenement Museum

www.tenement.org

BASEBALL MUSEUM TOURS

COOPERSTOWN DIGITAL CONTENT

www.baseballhall.org/discover/safe-at-home

NY Mets Museum

https://www.mlb.com/mets/ballpark/hall-of-fame

NY Yankees Museum

mlb.com/yankees/ballpark/events/spaces/museum

ZOO

www.bronxzoo.com

NYS CAPITOL DIGITAL CONTENT / AUDIO TOUR

www.empirestateplaza.ny.gov/tours/self-guided-tour-new-york-state-capitol

GO HERE TO EXPLORE THE MANY OTHER THINGS OFFERED IN NYC

www.nycgo.com/virtual-nyc/

EXPLORE OUTSIDE OF NEW YORK:

WILDLIFE:

Fiona the baby hippo at Cincinnati zoo

www.cincinnatizoo.org/the-fiona-show/

Baltimore Zoo live streams, they have live streams for their penguins, lions, giraffes, flamingos, and goats!

www.marylandzoo.org/animals/live-cams-feeds/

Baltimore Aquarium: Blacktip Reef stream and Jellies Invasion Cam

www.aqua.org/Experience/live#btr www.aqua.org/Experience/live#jellies

ART:

National Gallery

www.nga.gov

Uffizi Gallery tour (Botticelli’s Birth of Venus lives here!)

https://artsandculture.google.com/story/cQVh5Rbqa2Q3dg

Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery – here’s their American collection

https://artsandculture.google.com/search/asset/?p=national-portrait-gallery&em=m09c7w0&categoryId=place

Louvre Museum virtual tours:

www.louvre.fr/en/visites-en-ligne

British Museum – Museum of the World tour:

https://britishmuseum.withgoogle.com/

Infinity Mirrors art exhibit by Yayoi Kusama, very weird and cool:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VwJMw_fLvI

Get WAY closer to famous paintings than you’d ever be allowed to:

www.blog.google/outreach-initiatives/arts-culture/art-zoom-masterpieces-through-eyes-famous-musicians/

Banksy murals on Street View

https://artsandculture.google.com/story/NwLyuEgokJgAKQ

MUSIC:

Detroit Symphony Orchestra streams their concerts, including past concerts!

www.livefromorchestrahall.vhx.tv/browse

Vancouver Symphony BeethovenFest

www.vancouversymphony.ca/vso-livestream

Royal Opera House free operas and ballets

www.youtube.com/user/royaloperahouse

New York Metropolitan Opera – nightly limited-edition live-streams

HISTORIC/CULTURAL ATTRACTIONS:

www.metopera.org/

Tour the White House

https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/the-white-house

Palace of Versailles virtual exhibits

http://en.chateauversailles.fr/

Notre Dame Cathedral

https://www.notredamedeparis.fr/en/

NASA Langley Research Center Virtual tour

https://oh.larc.nasa.gov/oh/

National Museum of the United States Air Force virtual tours

www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/Virtual-Tour/

Civil War battlefield virtual tours

www.battlefields.org/visit/virtual-tours

Smithsonian Natural History Museum Virtual Tours

www.naturalhistory.si.edu/visit/virtual-tour

Smithsonian Natural History Museum, Geology, Gems, and Minerals tour

https://naturalhistory2.si.edu/vt3/NMNH/z_tour-118.html

Winchester Mystery House, Close the shutters and turn the lights out, this is a very haunted and spooky house!

www.winchestermysteryhouse.com/video-tour/

National Museum of African American History and Culture, curated mini-tour

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-virtually-explore-smithsonian-your-living-room-180974436/

NATURE/OUTDOORS:

Virtual garden tours – these are BEAUTIFUL, especially if you’ve forgotten what nature looks like

www.housebeautiful.com/lifestyle/gardening/g31746949/gardens-you-can-virtually-tour/

National Park tours, Kenai Fjords in Alaska, Hawaii Volcanos, Carlsbad Caverns, Bryce Canyon...

https://artsandculture.withgoogle.com/en-us/national-parks-service/parks

ACTIVE:

Planet Fitness at-home workout streams – live 7pm EST

www.facebook.com/planetfitness/

List of free streaming group fitness classes, if you miss your gym:

www.today.com/health/miss-gym-yoga-hiit-social-distance-dancing-stream-these-workout-t176820

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