Try a Virtual Tour

As more and more of us are staying home during the current health crisis, many public spaces are offering virtual tours of their spaces.  From museums, galleries, libraries, even zoos - the number of places you can visit from home is growing.  So here are a few places you might like to have a look at to keep yourself and the family entertained over the coming weeks.

The British Museum
Search the collection online to view specific objects or find out more about individual galleries.  Or perhaps you would like to take a virtual tour of their prints or the Oceania collection.

The Hermitage Museum
Right now, the museum states they are preparing a large quantity of broadcasts that you can view on their YouTube and Instagram channels. So far they are only in Russian, but in the near future they plan to begin broadcasting in other languages too – English, Italian and more.

The Smithsonian Open Access
Open access applies to digital assets that are created, stored, or maintained by the Smithsonian. This might include text, still images, sound recordings, research datasets, 3D models, collections data, and more.

London Medieval Murder Map
Each pin on the London map represents the approximate location of one of 142 homicides that occurred in the City of London in the first half of the 14th century. Click on a pin to read the story behind the event.

Virtual Library Tours
I Love Libraries has virtual tours of some iconic libraries, such as the Library of Parliament in Ottawa, Canada, the Mansueto Library at the University of Chicago, the New York Public Library, the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. and the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford. 

State Library of Victoria
I can't go past my home state library, with the SLV offering photos and images of many of their halls and spaces.  You can also take a tour of the history of the building.

Zoos Victoria
Watch the live cameras featuring the new snow leopard cubs (in both the nesting box and open enclosure), penguins, zebras, lions and giraffes.  As the animals go about their day they appear and disappear on the zoo cameras.