Museums of fine arts, natural sciences, modern art, secular or religious. There are hundreds of museums that each of us would like to visit, but they are usually located in another city or, worse, in another country. But in modern world You don’t have to travel far to do this. “Mel” has compiled for you a list of 15 museums that you can visit in any weather and at any time, completely free, without leaving your couch.

The museum complex on the Capitoline Hill in Rome is not just a few buildings with paintings and statues, it is almost the whole city in miniature. Three palazzos (Palazzo Nuovo, Palazza dei Conservatori and Montemartini Central) are located on the Capitoline Square, in the creation of which Michelangelo took an active part. And it’s not hard to believe: almost every meter of the complex breathes art. The museum contains the original of the Roman “She-Wolf”, try to find it.

Perhaps the most famous museum and palace complex in St. Petersburg after the Hermitage. The main exhibition occupies five buildings: the Mikhailovsky Palace with the Benois exhibition building, the Mikhailovsky Castle, the Marble and Stroganov palaces and the Summer Palace of Peter I. In addition, the museum territory includes several gardens and parks - there is a lot to see. A virtual tour allows you to visit all parts of the Russian Museum, and this is not always possible to do even on a trip to St. Petersburg.

The second name of the museum is Museum fine arts. Considered the largest museum in France after the Louvre, it contains about 2,000 paintings and 1,300 sculptures. All these works of art (from the 15th century to the present day) are placed in 70 galleries, detailed panoramas of which are on the website.

The museum was built on the site of an old theater: Dali once noticed the ruins and turned them into a colorful and memorable complex. The basis of the museum's collection is, of course, the works of the artist himself. There are rooms here that are part of the exhibition in themselves. The theater-museum is best described by the words of Dali himself: “I want my museum to be a monolith, a labyrinth, a huge surreal object. This will be an absolutely theatrical museum. Those who come here will leave feeling like they were in a dream.”

There is probably no person in the world who has not heard anything about Madame Tussauds. This is museum wax figures(actors, politicians, directors, philosophers, athletes), which are performed with incredible precision. A curiosity and peculiarity of this particular London building is the Cabinet of Horrors. It contains copies of various revolutionaries, murderers, psychopaths and other dangerous criminals.

Louvre - citadel European art, the most popular and majestic place in Paris, always full of tourists. So complete that it is sometimes impossible to see the paintings themselves. The Louvre was originally built as the residence of the king, so everything in it breathes splendor. There are currently only three routes available for virtual tours of the museum: Egyptian exhibits, a tour of the former moat that surrounded the building, and the Apollo Gallery. But the routes are constantly updated, keep an eye on the website.

It was here that the residence of the king moved from the Louvre; this complex is a work of art in itself. Since the end of the 17th century, Versailles has served as a model for the ceremonial country residences of European monarchs and aristocracy, and it is also included in the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage List. Not stored in the palace famous paintings, but there are unique frescoes on the ceilings, and the interior of the castle itself, with its huge corridors and spacious halls, will make anyone gasp.

One of the largest museums in the world and the main historical and archaeological museum of the United Kingdom. It contains exhibits from all over the world: China, India, Africa, Oceania, South America. In addition, of course, the history of Britain itself is told. The length of the museum is four kilometers. British museum is also a national library, the collections of which number about seven million volumes of printed publications.

The gallery was founded by a merchant who owned one of the largest collections of domestic visual arts. There is probably not a child in Moscow who would not go on an excursion to the old red building on Lavrushinsky Lane. But if you still don’t have the time or opportunity to visit the museum, walk around it virtually: the tour is incredibly detailed.

A museum in Washington that you can't miss: it's huge both outside and inside. In terms of the set of exhibits, the museum resembles our Darwin Museum, but the exhibition is much more impressive. Such a collection of butterflies and sea reptiles preserved in alcohol (giant squid, for example) cannot be found anywhere else in the world. The museum’s section with huge dinosaurs and other fossils has also been closed for three years, but you can still walk through these halls online!

Under the capacious sign “Vatican Museums” hides a whole galaxy of exhibition halls and galleries. The most venerable exhibitions are five centuries old. During this time, museum curators managed to collect a stunning collection of sculpture, paintings, manuscripts, household items and religious art. And museums began with just one statue. Online you can walk through St. Peter's Basilica, the Basilica of San Giovanni in Laterano, the Basilica of St. Paul outside the city walls, the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore and, as a bonus, walk through the Sistine Chapel.

The museum complex includes six buildings, but online you can only walk through one, the main one. It contains an impressive Greek hall with a statue of Apollo, replicas of the tombstones of the Borgia brothers and artifacts from the excavation of Troy. The Egyptian hall with a copy of the sarcophagi of the pharaohs looks especially mysterious.

Without a doubt, the largest palace in St. Petersburg, which incorporates not so much painting and sculpture as history itself: the Hermitage has been the royal residence since the time of Peter I. The museum is huge, in places you can even get lost inside, but, as in the Louvre, size does not always mean space. There are so many visitors to the Hermitage that you have to stand in a long line before entering, and it’s not always possible to get to the necessary exhibits. No one will disturb you during the virtual tour. There is also an overview of selected collections and exhibits on the museum’s website.

Space is a mysterious and alluring space, which the Planetarium introduces visitors to in an interesting and beautiful way. The museum is located on four floors and consists of several exhibition options: the Urania Museum, the Lunarium, the small and large Star Halls. By the way, the Star Halls deserve special attention: they show on huge screens educational programs, which will be of interest to both children and adults. Unfortunately, you can’t watch them online, but you can walk through the halls of the museums and even go to a cafe!

You can also check out the website at your leisure. Google: ArtProject. It contains millions of exhibits from thousands of museums: Google was the first to start digitizing exhibits. And there you can walk to many places. Here, for example, St Paul's Cathedral in London.

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 in 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 in Sistine Chapel there are a lot of people, and it’s 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!

Traveling through museums online

Not everyone has the opportunity to travel abroad and visit world-famous museums, art galleries and other art monuments. But if you really want to experience beauty, then why not try to travel online to museums?

Someone tell me what to see cultural heritage on the monitor screen - not at all as interesting as live. But virtual travel also has its advantages:

You can see the objects you are interested in right from home, at a time convenient for you;
online tours are free;
on the computer screen you will see everything in the smallest detail;
on virtual travel portals it is possible to see what is not available for viewing in a real museum.

In 2011, Google, together with seventeen museums, created the project. Now we have access to the most famous world museums: the Tate Gallery, the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, the Hermitage, Tretyakov Gallery, Van Gogh Museum, Versailles, etc. In total, thanks to the Art Project, we can see 385 halls, more than 1000 paintings.

It's easy to start your journey online. Go to the project website and select the museum you are interested in from the list. After this, you will see a panorama of the museum hall and will be able to “move” from room to room.

When photographing museums and galleries, special technologies were used that make it possible to examine the smallest details of works of art. Each museum that participates in the project has paintings photographed in very high quality. On them you can easily see details that are inaccessible during normal viewing. For example, these are paintings by Van Gogh, Manet, Botticelli, etc.

In addition to the Google Art project, there are many more interesting portals with virtual tours.

We recommend visiting:
Portal
Contains virtual tours of Russian museums, estates, churches. You can visit the Ostrovsky house-museum, the Bakhrushin theater museum, etc. The site has easy navigation. Here it is very easy to find a tour that is interesting to you; you can include comments on the exhibits.

Website Opening of the Kremlin
On this resource, everyone can visit the Kremlin, see the Chamber of Facets and the Alexander Hall, the courtyard, as well as places that are not visited by regular excursions.

Virtual Travel Portal
Provides an opportunity to visit museums, cathedrals and art galleries Czech Republic. Although the site is in Czech, finding the tour you are interested in will not be difficult.

Resource
The site suggests visiting the Taj Mahal, botanical gardens Great Britain, St. Paul's Cathedral, Westminster Abbey and other equally interesting objects.

Portal
Will allow you to see Madame Tussauds wax museum, European cathedrals. Contains about 360 excursion tours.

Site tour of the Louvre
Created for those who dreamed of wandering through the galleries of the legendary Louvre. You will be able to view it in three dimensions.


Everyscape portal
It differs in that little-known small museums from different countries are represented here.

Russian Railway website
Here you can visit the Steam Locomotive Museum. A short educational excursion for those who are interested in the history of trains.

The proposed resources will be useful to children, students, as well as anyone interested in art and history.

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 and explore the museum's exhibitions.

Virtual tours of the world's most famous museums

Louvre– the largest and most visited museum in the world (about 10 million tourists per 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.