![]() Home to some 70,000 artworks and artifacts spanning centuries, continents and mediums, the 5.5-hectare Vatican Museums are among Italy’s finest cultural institutions. The Vatican Museums (pictured here), the Anne Frank House and the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City are among the many cultural institutions with online offerings. To delve deeper into the story detailed in Frank’s diary, online visitors can watch videos about her life virtually explore the Secret Annex look around the house where she lived before going into hiding and view the Google Arts and Culture exhibition “ Anne Frank: Her Life, Her Diary, Her Legacy.” The Vatican Museums The Anne Frank House, established in cooperation with the famed diarist’s father, Otto, in 1957, strives to inform the public through educational programs and tours of the building where the teenager and her family hid during World War II. © Anne Frank House / Photo by Cris Toala Olivares Take a virtual tour of the Secret Annex, or explore the home where Frank and her family lived before going into hiding. Those seeking an educational walkthrough can follow along by tuning into curator-led recorded tours. This experience takes visitors through six floors of modern and contemporary art from Korea and around the world. In collaboration with Google Arts and Culture, the MMCA is now offering a virtual tour of its collections. Visitors look at a site-specific art project called Home Within Home by artist Suh Do-Ho during a media event before the opening of a branch of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, in Seoul.Ĭommitted to offering a culturally rewarding experience since opening its doors in 2013, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul (MMCA) has established itself as a prominent cultural platform and leader in Korean art. The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea ![]() Users can take a virtual tour of the entire building (or a thematic tour covering such topics as food, sustainability, fashion and even “inclusive love”) browse current and closed exhibits and watch behind-the-scenes videos featuring interviews, lectures and technical studies. To spotlight these artistic treasures, the Madrid museum offers an array of multimedia resources. Home to the world’s second largest private collection of art, the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza owns masterpieces by giants of virtually every art movement-to name just a few, Jan van Eyck, Titian, Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Picasso and Dalí. Kyle Magnuson via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 2.0 ![]() ![]() The museum is one of Madrid's "Big Three" cultural institutions. Additionally, around 2,500 museums and galleries, including the Uffizi Galleries in Florence and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, are offering virtual tours and presenting online collections via the Google Arts and Culture portal.įor those in search of armchair travel inspiration, Smithsonian magazine has compiled a list of ten museums that have found new ways to fulfill their critical mission of cultivating creativity and spreading knowledge. Among the other experiences on offer: Scroll through an extensive trove of 3-D photographs from the Minneapolis Institute of Art, explore online exhibits from the National Women’s History Museum in Virginia, or admire artistic masterpieces from the Dalí Theatre-Museum in Spain. The Smithsonian Institution, of course, has its own array of virtual tours, experiences and educational resources. ![]() But while visitors can no longer roam the halls of these institutions, virtual tools and online experiences mean anyone with an internet connection can browse world-class collections from home. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, museums and cultural institutions across the globe are closing their doors to the public. ![]()
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