Art galleries and museums – online tours

Luiza Poreda, 16 March 2020

Without leaving home, without traveling, without buying tickets – the largest cultural institutions invite you to view their collections on the Internet. Thanks to this, you can see the greatest works of art, often in details that we usually don’t notice. Just sit back on the sofa and admire the works collected in the most interesting art galleries and museums. We highly recommend for long days spent at home.

Home quarantine complicates a lot in our lives. Even if we have food supplies for the next few days, we sometimes face boredom. In the end how many movies you can watch online! If you want a bit of culture and art, you can take advantage of the offer of many institutions without leaving your home. The Google Arts & Culture website has teamed up with over 500 museums and art galleries around the world to provide everyone with a virtual tour of the resources of these cultural institutions.

The Google Arts & Culture collection includes resources  like The British Museum in London, Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, Guggenheim in New York and hundreds of other places: thanks to them you can get knowledge about art, history and science at home during long days at home. Here we will learn a lot about the lives of specific artists, as well as read the story of the creation of the greatest works of art in the world.

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Which museums and art galleries in the world can we visit online?

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Guggenheim Museum in New York (USA)

Google Street View allows Internet users to explore the famous spiral stairs at the Guggenheim Museum without leaving home. You can also see unique works of art from the era of impressionism, post-impressionism, as well as the most current.

British Museum in London (UK)

This is one of the most famous museums in the world prepared for the quarantine: on-site curators of museum art galleries selected specific objects and created a virtual art gallery from them that can be visited in many ways: you can choose a specific location and one of the topics, such as: Art and Design, Religion and Beliefs, Trade and Conflict. The works are placed on the timeline, so we can place them both in space and time, and to know the context in the detailed description of the work of art.

Uffizi Gallery in Florence (Italy)

This is an art gallery, the collection of which was already started in the Renaissance by the great Medici family – it is an extraordinary treat for lovers of art history. In the collection of this art gallery we will see such great works as Botticelli’s “Birth of Venus”. Most of the works collected in the Florentine art gallery can now be seen in the online gallery in good resolution with short descriptions. Some of them will also be seen in close-up, learning all the painting nuances of the work.

Musée d’Orsay in Paris (France)

The collection of this museum is centered around artists who have been working artistically from the mid-nineteenth century until 1914. The collections of this art institution every year attract millions of visitors due to the huge resources and popularity of impressionists – artists of that period. While visiting the museum’s online gallery, you can learn about the history of the institution itself, as well as the works in this art gallery.

Louvre, Paris (France)

Virtual tours of its art galleries are also offered by the Paris Louvre, as well as all other largest art institutions in the French capital. The offer includes up to thousands of works of art.

Rijks Museum, Amsterdam (Netherlands)

A unique collection of works of the Dutch era of the golden age, including many painted paintings by Rembrandt and Vermeer, is nowhere else found. In 80 art galleries to view – now online – you will find over eight thousand objects.

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Online galleries of Polish museums and art galleries

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Many Polish museums and other art and culture institutions invite for virtual walks. You can walk online around such places as: the Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, the Zachęta National Gallery of Art, the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum, the Warsaw Uprising Museum, the Royal Castle in Warsaw and many, many more. We highly recommend it!

Zachęta – National Gallery of Art

In Warsaw’s Zachęta, not only virtual guided tours of exhibitions, but also online workshops for children are waiting for us. Guided tours will take place on Fridays and Sundays through Facebook. Workshops will take place via Skype – prior reservation is required – all information can be found on the Zachęta website.

National Museum in Gdańsk

An online catalog of all collections, divided into themed galleries, is available from the National Museum in Gdańsk.

Royal Castle in Warsaw

The Royal Castle and The Tin-Roofed Palace invite you for virtual walks. The beautiful rooms of both buildings can be viewed in perfect resolution.