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