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Did you know that you can visit museums and art galleries across the world virtually?! Google Arts & Culture provide amazing virtual tours. You can feel like you’re walking through beautiful exhibitions, from your bed! Best of all, they’re free.
As a Classical Archaeology student, I’ve been a fan of the British Museum virtual tour for years. Recently, I’ve been enjoying many other virtual museum tours from all over the world.
I’ve compiled a list of 50+ Amazing Virtual Museum Gallery Tours You Can Take At Home. It may surprise you to know that this is only a small selection of the available tours. Most of these are provided by Google Arts & Culture. Some museums also offer their own virtual tours, which I have included here too.
Some of my all-time favourite museums are featured on this list and some that I’ve never visited in real life. I’ve never been lucky enough to venture beyond Europe. Consequently, these online virtual tours have provided a way for me to enjoy American and Asian museums too!
50+ Amazing Virtual Museum & Gallery Tours You Can Take At Home
If you’d like to skip to a specific section, use the clickable table of contents below. Each museum tour is linked, so you can click straight through to view it.
The U.K.
Firstly, I’ll start with the virtual museum and art gallery tours I recommend from the U.K. Most of these are my favourite museums, and ones I have personally visited.
During my time as a Classics student in London, the British Museum became my second home! As for art galleries, I love the National Gallery, Royal Academy of Arts, and the Scottish National Gallery. The Courtauld Gallery deserves a special mention; its location at Somerset House meant it was essentially on the campus of my university, King’s College London. I spent many breaks between lectures browsing the Courtauld! My absolute favourite museum in the U.K. is the V&A, a truly beautiful place.
V&A (Victoria & Albert Museum)
Oxford University History of Science Museum
Scottish National Gallery – Edinburgh, Scotland
Republic of Ireland
Blarney Castle – Cork, Ireland
I also have a blog post sharing my favourite museums in London.
Europe
The Louvre – Paris, France
Musee d’Orsay – Paris, France
The Palace of Versailles – Paris, France
Acropolis Museum – Athens, Greece
Van Gogh Museum – Amsterdam, Netherlands
Anne Frank House – Amsterdam, Netherlands
The Munch Museum – Oslo, Norway
Altes Museum – Berlin, Germany
Pergamon Museum – Berlin, Germany
New Masters Gallery, Dresden State Art Collections – Dresden, Germany
Uffizi Gallery – Florence, Italy
Ca’ Pesaro, Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna – Venice, Italy
Pinacoteca di Brera – Milan, Italy
Musei Capitolini – Rome, Italy
Vatican Museum – Vatican City, Rome, Italy
Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, MNAC – Barcelona, Spain
Picasso Museum – Barcelona, Spain
The Dali Theatre-Museum – Figueres, Catalonia, Spain
Belvedere – Vienna, Austria
Museum of Fine Arts – Budapest
The National Museum – Krakow, Poland
Ateneum Art Museum – Helsinki, Finland
National Gallery Prague – Czechia
The Olympic Museum – Lausanne, Switzerland
The State Hermitage Museum – St. Petersburg, Russia
U.S.A. + South America
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum – New York
The Met – New York
The J. Paul Getty Museum – Los Angeles
Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery – Washington DC
National Gallery of Art – Washington DC
Isabella Steward Gardner Museum – Boston
NASA Langley Research Center (Virginia) & Glenn Research Center (Ohio)
Museo Dolores Olmedo – Mexico
Museo Frida Kahlo – Mexico City
MASP – Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo Assis Chateaubriand – Sao Paulo, Brazil
Asia, India & Australia
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art – Seoul, South Korea
Ohara Museum of Art – Kurashiki, Japan
Tokyo National Museum – Tokyo, Japan
National Gallery of Modern Art – New Delhi, India
National Gallery of Victoria – Melbourne, Australia
There we have it! My list of 50+ amazing Virtual Museum Gallery Tours you can take at home, for free. Google Arts & Culture have over 500 virtual museum tours! Make sure to check them out, it’s a wonderful resource.
I’m also in the process of compiling another similar ‘virtual tourism’ blog post. This post will feature my favourite National Park & Gardens virtual tours! We can all enjoy a bit of nature without leaving our homes, amazing right? These virtual tours cannot replace exercise, fresh air, and enjoying flowers in real life. However, it is important to realise that parks are not available to everyone. Consequently, the internet can provide a temporary solution!
Stay safe, and make sure to practice self-care. If you’re struggling with self-care, I have several free self-care checklists and printables available on Gumroad. Have a read of my Self-Care blog posts.
Have you been enjoying any Virtual Museum Gallery Tours? Let me know which ones are your favourite!
All the best,
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A great review I had seen some of the virtual tours advertised but this is a one stop shop. Think I’ll be viewing a couple later when I’m relaxing.
Thank-you for your kind words! I hope you enjoy any tours you decide to take.
Good to do while at home.. thankyou for the suggestions
Thank-you Krishan, and you’re welcome!
I did not know that these places did so many free virtual tours. What an incredible resource, especially now! I’m definitely checking a few of these out!
I’m so glad you’re going to check some of them out! I did the Frida Kahlo Museum virtual tour a few days ago, it was great! x
I really need to check things like this out. my parents are meant to be visiting this summer but may need to be stuck in our house the whole time due to quarantine measures – this will at least be a fun way to pretend we are doing things haha
It totally is a fun way to pretend to be productive! I hope you’re doing okay, stay safe x
I have heard about these virtaul museums ut not looked into them yet. Never knew there was so many. I have booked marked this page and will be checking them all out over the next week
Thank-you Natasha, I hope you find a tour to enjoy! I checked out the Frida Kahlo Museum a few days ago, it was brilliant. x
LOVE this!! What a fab family resource and we will deffo be checking a few of these virtual tours out this weekend – thank you x
Thank-you so much! I hope you and your family are doing well. Enjoy the tours if you decide to give them a go! x
This is great, id love to still visit the locations as they are often set in lovely cities, but i really see the benefits of doing a VR Museum tour and is a great thing to do.
Oh absolutely. It can’t replace visiting these beautiful places around the world, but it’s great to get a feel of the art and culture while in lockdown!
We love visiting museums as a family and the fact that you can visit virtual ones during lockdown is brilliant for homeschooling and also for any museum enthusiasts or people wanting to extend their knowledge!
Oh wow this is such a great list! i can’t believe how many there are – I am going to take a look at a few of these that have already caught my eye.
There are so many! I hope you enjoy them, I’m having a lot of fun doing these virtual tours.
Such a great idea, I had no idea you could do this – have a good idea for some home learning now
We love museums and The Tate this is such great that you can still visit them without leaving your home
I love the Tate too, I’m really missing it at the moment!
Wow, this list is so thorough. Amazing!
Thank-you so much Freya!
This does sounds great ad you don’t need to worry about travelling or the weather. What a great way to see museums all around the world.
Wooow! I had no idea of this!
What a great way to increase our culture without leaving home! Thank you!
I’m a big fan of museums!