Art always inspires. It reminds us of the diversity of the world and its beauty. It’s a pity that we often don’t have enough time and money to visit museums where masterpieces of past centuries await. How to visit the most famous museums world without queues and without tickets? How to visit the Louvre, Prado and Hermitage in one weekend?
How can you catch a tour in order to get a good look at the skull of a Neanderthal or the painting on an ancient Greek vase? How to show your child pictures famous artists? There is only one answer to all questions - go on a virtual tour. Incredible Google Art Project, offers such tours to the best museums.
"Starry Night" Vincent Van Gogh
One of the most famous and visited museums in the world. In it you can see not only works of our time, but also originals " starry night"Vincent Van Gogh and "Hope II" by Gustav Klimt. The virtual tour offers unusual exhibits of our time: original costumes, photographs, posters, sculptures and psychogeographic paintings by Mark Bradford.
Hans Holbein "The Ambassadors"
You can definitely spend the whole day here! The museum contains paintings from the 13th to 20th centuries. We recommend checking out “The Madonna of the Rocks” by Leonardo da Vinci, “Venus and Mars” by Sandro Botticelli and “Allegory of Prudence” by Titian. These and other masterpieces are available in a virtual exhibition.
"At the Conservatory" Edouard Manet
Collected in a German museum paintings XIX centuries in the style of classicism, romanticism, impressionism and early modernism. Special attention deserve paintings by Edouard Manet “At the Conservatory”, Gustave Courbet “The Wave” and Caspar David Friedrich “The Monk by the Sea”. You can walk around the entire museum complex. True, some paintings remained without signatures.
"Battle of Aboukir" Antoine-Jean Gros
A place where everyone will feel royal grandeur. With the help of Art Project you can not only look at famous paintings(“The Death of Marat” by Jacques Louis David, “The Meeting of Eleazar with Rebekah” by Paolo Veronese, “Hercules Supports Victory” by Jean Jouvenet), but also to trace how one of the most luxurious palaces in history changed. The virtual tour also offers a walk through a realistic park.
“Girl with Peaches” Valentin Serov
Art lovers won't find more full meeting works by artists from Russia than here. Our favorites are “The Black Sea” by Ivan Aivazovsky, “The Emerald Necklace” by Viktor Borisov-Musatov, “The Lady in Blue” by Konstantin Somov and “Girl with Peaches” by Valentin Serov.
"The Hungarian Gypsy" by Amrita Sher-Gil
Would you like to know more about Indian art? Then choose this museum. The paintings will help you get acquainted with a completely different culture. The museum displays not only the works of Indian artists, but also paintings by Europeans that were created in India. It is worth paying attention to Amrita Sher-Gil, who is often compared to Frida Kahlo.
"Birth of Venus" by Sandro Botticelli
The most visited museum in Italy. It seems that you can watch “The Birth of Venus” by Sandro Botticelli for hours! Also in the Uffizi you can see “The Adoration of the Magi” and “The Annunciation” by Leonardo da Vinci, “Flora” by Titian, “The Musical Angel” by Rosso Fiorentino and others famous paintings.
“Van Gogh Paints Sunflowers” Paul Gauguin
The number one place for all admirers of the work of the Dutch post-impressionist. By the way, the museum in Amsterdam will offer you to look not only at the paintings of Vincent van Gogh (“Sunflowers”, “The Potato Eaters”, “Bedroom in Arles”), but also at the works of his talented contemporaries (for example, Pablo Picasso and Paul Gauguin).
"Guernica" by Pablo Picasso
Not only an incredible art museum, but also a big library. We advise you to evaluate the works of avant-garde artist Juan Gris (“Bottle of Anise del Mono”, “ Open window", "Violin and guitar"). The main exhibit of the museum is considered to be “Guernica” by Pablo Picasso.
A museum that will tell you almost everything about British art. It contains works from 1500 to the present day. We love popping in here to revisit John Everett Millais's Ophelia, James Whistler's Nocturne, and William Turner's The Blizzard.
The Sainte-Chapelle Chapel is not exactly a museum, but one of the most famous and amazing monuments gothic architecture. Its incredibly beautiful stained glass windows tell the story of human history: a total of 1,113 scenes are depicted here. It is surprising that many of the stained glass windows that can be seen in the Sainte-Chapelle now have been preserved since the 13th century, even surviving French Revolution(while many Christian relics kept in the chapel were destroyed). An online tour gives you an idea of the beauty of this place, but if you want to take a closer look at the stained glass windows, it is better to visit the chapel in person.
As part of the virtual tour, you can visit only a few halls of the main historical and archaeological museum of Britain - those located on its first floor. But many exhibits can be viewed in large format. The collection of graphics and engravings by Michelangelo deserves special attention here.
This is the number one place for all admirers of the work of the surrealist artist Salvador Dali. A virtual tour is available on the museum's website. You can only walk through some exhibition halls, but don’t rush to get upset: the virtual exhibition features such famous works by Dali as “Room with the Face of Mae West” and “Rainy Taxi”.
An incredible Renaissance monument. Botticelli, Perugino, and Ghirlandaio worked on the frescoes decorating the walls of the chapel. Truly legendary - fresco " Last Judgment» Michelangelo. Usually there are a lot of people in the Sistine Chapel, and it is quite difficult to see all the amazing paintings. Therefore, a virtual tour is a real salvation. Enjoy!
The museum dedicated to the great writer is worth visiting for everyone! You can take a walk through the “bad apartment” No. 50 (according to the plot of “The Master and Margarita”, Woland lived in it) virtually. You will have a chance to look into Bulgakov’s office, visit the living room, and see the “communal kitchen” exhibition. The exhibits presented in the museum are digitized, so they can be examined slowly and in detail.
Tells almost everything about contemporary art. The museum is famous not only for its exhibition, but also for its unusual building in the form of an inverted tower. Visitors first go up to the top floor, and then inspect the exhibition in a spiral and go down. Thanks to the online tour, everyone has the opportunity to repeat the route! In addition, the exhibits presented in the virtual collection can be carefully examined in all details.
Of course, virtual museums cannot replace real excursions. But such Internet forays, and even if together with your child, will help you better understand him and plan a program family vacation. Have a pleasant and educational time!
Brazilian writer and poet Paulo Coelho advised travelers: “ Avoid visiting museums. Being in a foreign city, I would be more interested in learning about the present of this city than about its past. You need to visit museums, but you need to have enough time for this.” And the Polish satirist Ryszard Podlewski, once said: “ there are things you have to see to know they’re not worth seeing.”
Guided by words famous people, we offer links to virtual tours of famous museums around the world. Having previously familiarized yourself with the exhibits on display, you will be able to decide for yourself whether it is worth going here and how much time to allocate for visiting this museum on a real trip.
Grab a cup of coffee, sit back comfortably in your chair and explore the museum exhibitions.
Virtual tours of the world's most famous museums
Louvre– the largest and most visited museum in the world (about 10 million tourists a year). The ancient royal palace, where the art collections of French monarchs are exhibited, is located in the center of Paris, on the banks of the Senne. Its popularity means inevitable queues to enter, in which you can stand for several hours!
If you spend 10 hours exploring the entire museum, you will only be able to devote 1 second to each exhibit. Fortunately, online travelers are given the opportunity to explore the Ancient Egyptian Halls, the remains of a medieval fortress built under King Philip Augustus, and the recently restored Appalonian Gallery.
Five museums on Museum Island are part of the association State museums. IN Old Museum A part of the Antique Collection from the collection of ancient Greek art is on display. New Museum after opening in 2009, he hosted the exposition Egyptian Museum and collections of papyri. Many tourists come here to see the famous bust of the ancient Egyptian queen Nefertiti. The New Museum also features a prehistoric exhibition dating back to stone age and other very ancient eras.
How to visit the most famous museums in the world without queues and without tickets? How to visit the Louvre, Prado and Hermitage in one weekend? How can you go on an excursion after school in time to take a good look at the skull of a Neanderthal or the painting on an ancient Greek vase? How to show your child paintings by famous artists? There is only one answer to all questions - go on a virtual tour of the best museums.
What are the benefits of virtual museum trips with children?
“Expensive, long, many people” - for these reasons, families with children often refuse to visit major museums. But if you visit museums around the world online, you will not encounter queues or crowds of tourists at the famous exhibits. Sitting in comfortable chair, you can stroll through magnificent palaces or examine small details in Bosch paintings, plan a route for future excursions, and even travel back in time.
You also don’t have to worry about whether your child will become capricious in the gym or get tired. You will spend as much time in the virtual museum as is convenient for you and your child, and you can return to the tour whenever you want.
Virtual tours and collections can often be found on museum websites. You can also watch museums around the world online Google Art Project- a platform on which panoramas and images of works of art from many museums around the world are posted.
Virtual tours of the Hermitage
Guides, trying to highlight the richness of the collection State Hermitage(St. Petersburg), they say that it will take 15 years to examine all its exhibits. Maybe today you have a free minute to get acquainted with the paintings of El Greco, the sculptures of Michelangelo or the mechanical dolls? The “In Focus” project reveals the secrets of some exhibits, and the “Masterpieces” selection allows you to examine in detail about a thousand paintings, sculptures, archaeological finds and other priceless things. Such a virtual excursion has its advantages: it gives access to those exhibits that are not presented in the permanent exhibition.
On the Hermitage website you can create your own collection of your favorite works and create a route through the halls, which will be useful during a real tour of this museum. Additional Information about the exhibits is on Hermitage page in the Google art project. You can also do it there virtual walk through several halls of the museum.
Virtual tours of the Louvre
The most famous work, stored in the Louvre (Paris), - “Mona Lisa” by Leonardo da Vinci. Meanwhile, the Louvre collection contains more than 300 thousand works of art. If you need to take a good look at the features of the Venus de Milo or write an essay on Delacroix’s painting “Liberty Leading the People,” it is better not to use small reproductions in school textbooks, but to open the collection of selected works of the Louvre and admire its masterpieces.
Some rooms can be visited on a virtual tour. The image quality allows you to even see the old masonry in the basement of the Louvre. Some of the exhibits you will see during the virtual tour can be zoomed in and given a brief description.
Virtual tours of the best museums
How I want cultural life!.. But something always gets in the way. And there is no money for a trip to Italy. And time - even to go to the Tretyakov Gallery. And the children are sitting in a row at tablets. We ask: what do you need to do with the leaps and bounds of technology? There is a great way to experience beauty without removing anything strategically important from your chair!
Vatican, Sistine Chapel
Getting to this divine place is not easy, even if you get to Rome: the queue snakes – a kilometer long! And at home in front of the monitor you can examine every detail using the mouse and the three treasured buttons in the lower left corner.
Smithsonian Museum of Natural History
126 million specimens of plants, animals, fossils, minerals, rocks, meteorites, archaeological and cultural artifacts - without having to fly to Washington to find them. Move from room to room following the arrows, approach the most interesting mammoths closely and look around by pressing the buttons.
Opening of the Kremlin
A virtual tour of the Kremlin also opens objects closed to tourists that are part of the Kremlin complex of the presidential residence. Don’t forget to click on the sound: the text is read not by anyone, but by Batalov.
Collection of the State Hermitage: high resolution
This museum is distinguished by the fact that it is easy for an inexperienced person to get lost in it. And in a day you can only look at a couple of halls and your head will spin. Let's start with training. This collection contains 100 images, including paintings that are not in the Hermitage’s permanent collection. You can download it in a resolution of 5441x4013, saying: “This is my size!”
Uffizi Gallery
Entering the famous palace in Florence with its inhuman collection of European visual arts, you move along the corridors in the same way as on Yandex maps - and with bated breath you look for Botticelli.
Frick Collection
Freak is in in this case not an eccentric, but a famous American industrialist. Although an eccentric too: such masterpieces should be bequeathed to a public museum! IN free days When visiting his mansion, queues of thirsty people line up, and we can inspect his treasures at home completely free of charge.
Online gallery of the Prado Museum
The Spaniards do not suggest walking through the halls and turning your head, but the painting from the collection that interests you can be seen in a very good resolution. And they have a significant collection of European fine art.
Metropolitan Museum of Art collection online
Here, too, instead of technical problems, there are great works. You search, click, open, have fun. You zoom in, look at it, hang out. You can meditate on Van Gogh alone for a day.
Virtual walks through the Russian Museum
You can walk through all the palaces, gardens and houses of Peter the Great using the arrows - and read the explanatory texts under the virtual walk window.
Reconstruction of the Tretyakov Gallery in 1898
The reconstruction was made based on photographs by Pavel Tretyakov. Take a walk around 19th century the traveler from the 21st century is helped by the diagram of the rooms on the right - and general form rooms are straight ahead. Which you can click on to zoom in on each canvas. The site takes a long time to load and is pompous, but it’s still interesting.
Salvador Dali Museum (Florida)
We will look at the paintings of the great guru of sur right in the interior - there is information about them right there if you click on the plaque. You can “walk” not only through the exhibition, but also through all the other rooms, and around the museum.
Museum of Oriental Art (Chicago)
For lovers of mysterious shards, precious coins with proud profiles, rusty harnesses and other ancient stuff. Mesopotamia, Egypt, Assyria, Persia and Nubia online.
Moscow City Museum
If dear guests arrived in an expensive capital on the day off of the museum of its history, this history can be studied at the computer, in warm company, at the home of Muscovite friends. They probably haven’t even gotten there in this life yet. Traffic jams, yes, we understand.
Virtual tour of the Moscow Planetarium
According to the scheme, you can jump across all floors from zero to three, using the icons that pop up along the way - through all the halls. Look at devices and other interesting objects and read information about them. You can even visit the 4D cinema and cafe. It’s a pity that technology has not yet reached online treats.
Civil Aviation Museum
Airplane lovers can not only wander between them and look at them from different angles, but also “leave their mark”: this tour has such a fun feature. However, you can erase your mark if you wish.
Skansen in Chernivtsi
Undoubtedly, virtual travel cannot and should not replace real travel with all its gamut of vivid sensations and impressions. But they help us see any corner of the earth for free, even if you yourself will never be able to visit there. Moreover, it is very convenient way get mass in advance useful information and plan your future trips.
You can fly in the stratosphere over the entire planet or over the roofs of Paris and St. Petersburg, look into the halls British Museum or the treasury of the Kremlin, find yourself among the mountains and waterfalls of Iceland or in the amazing underwater world of the Galapagos Islands... Stop dreaming, there are no more obstacles in front of you!
1. Panoramas 360cities.net
Just as poets describe the world with poems, artists with paintings, composers with music, so the website 360cities.net describes the world with picturesque panoramas.
Tens of thousands of photographs from all corners of the earth are collected here, and not only ours - there are even panoramas of other planets from one interesting rover.
Here you will enjoy virtually traveling around the capital of Nepal, Kathmandu, or exploring the panorama of London, which was filmed in such high resolution that you can see the faces of people in the windows of houses.
2. Google Photo Tours
Of course, the ability to view streets on GoogleStreetView maps will not surprise anyone for a long time. But not everyone may know that the participants in this project are also interested in creating photo tours and entire virtual trips. These photo tours give you the opportunity to walk around Taj Mahal , look at Dubai from the world's tallest 800-meter skyscraper Burj Khalifa , over the whole of Paris from one of three observation decks Eiffel Tower or be transported to Mexico to the pyramids Chichen Itza . There are also unusual journeys, for example, a descent into a salt mine similar to an underground palace in Wieliczka (Poland)) or immersion in the present undersea world.
in dozens of different places, for example,
Galapagos Islands
To travel around Russia, take a look at RusMap.net (Google services are used) - this is an understandable and accessible service for those who often go on business trips, love to travel, or are just about to hit the road. Regardless of your goal, Rusmap will make the trip as pleasant and comfortable as possible.
The “panorama” option allows you to take a virtual walk through the cities of Russia. Perhaps such an online journey will be the impetus for taking a real one.
3. Google Street View app
When I travel, I often use the Street View app. It is available for Android and iPhone. The application allows you to view many panoramas located on the world map.
There are panoramas of users and panoramas of Google itself. The service is developing rapidly and the number of panoramas is increasing before our eyes.
The Yandex company is also actively developing its mapping service, and on its maps you can take a bird's eye view of the cities of Russia and the world. For example, fly over Palace Square in St. Petersburg or above the Assumption Cathedral in Vladimir.
Yandex maps are perhaps more visual than Google; there is a mode for viewing a panorama and a map at the same time.
5. Air Pano
The amazing project of another Russian team, Air Pano, is a rare case of professional enthusiasts creating products at a level that was previously only achievable by wealthy Internet corporations. Spherical aerial panoramas, or rather entire air excursions Air Pano, will easily give both Google and Yandex a run for their money in terms of the beauty and quality of the footage.
Filming is carried out from literally everything that can fly: from airplanes and balloons to airships and radio-controlled drones. Now the site has about 2000 panoramas from the most picturesque corners of the world. Here you can visit the island of Java on Mount Bromo or see the Kremlin from the air in
different angles
, admire the northern lights in Iceland or admire one of the islands of Hawaii, visit Petra in Jordan and even look inside the famous Treasury.
In addition, when viewing a panorama, you can switch to another camera by simply clicking on the helicopter symbol.
The panoramas are not only colorful, but also educational. Many bear the names of visible objects.
6. Youtube 360 video files
360-degree video provides even greater immersion and full presence. You can easily look to the right or left, for example, when passing the palaces on a boat in Venice.
You can search for 360 degree videos on Youtube, but you can also search on Air Pano.
7. Video travel on Vimeo You will be surprised what miracles a good photographer can create using the time lapse technique (slow motion). This is a great way to show even familiar places in a completely new light and inspire travel. Excellent collections of such videos are collected on vimeo.com. Hundreds of videos give you the opportunity to visit the most beautiful places planets. You will be able to admire the golden pagodas of mysterious Myanmar, the northern beauty of Norwegian sunsets, romantic views
famous bridge "Golden Gate" in San Francisco or other stunning shots from around the world. Another global Google project is dedicated to art. It’s called: Art Project. Behind the modest name lies an incredible exhibition - tens of thousands of paintings from best museums, that you can, for example, examine in detail every stroke of Van Gogh’s “Starry Night” or look into the eyes of the noblewoman Morozova Surikov.
Many museums kindly allowed us to film not only their exhibitions, but also their premises. And now you can, without getting up from your chair, stroll through the halls of the Hermitage or the Doge's Palace in Venice, or visit the Museum of the Acropolis of Athens.
If you creative person, then similar virtual excursions will save your time and money, and you will receive no less aesthetic pleasure from works of art.
9. Webcam on the ISS
Are you fascinated by the unknown expanses of the Universe? Then watch the broadcasts at live from a webcam on the International Space Station. You will have the feeling that the camera is somewhere very close, and not 400 km from the surface of the planet.
The image changes slowly but surely throughout the day and you can see for yourself that our blue planet is in perfect order. However, it should be noted that the video is only available when there is a signal with the Earth, otherwise you will only see a splash screen. Sometimes on video you can see the life of astronauts and their spacewalks.
P.S. Did you enjoy virtually walking around the world? Will such virtual excursions help you prepare for visiting some interesting places in real travel? Do you have video panoramas in your collection that will take your breath away? Share with us your impressions and findings in the comments to this article...
And also, don't forget to tell your friends about this new opportunity explore the world.