Virtual tours of the best museums

How I long for a cultural life!.. Only something always gets in the way. And there is no money for a trip to Italy. And time - even a trip to the Tretyakov Gallery. And the children are sitting in a row at the tablets. We ask: so what are the leaps and bounds of technology for you? There is a great way to join the beautiful, without taking anything strategically important from the chair!

Vatican, Sistine Chapel

It is not easy to get to this divine place, even if you get to Rome: the queue snakes - a kilometer long! And at home, in front of the monitor, you can see every detail, using the mouse and 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 - and you do not need to fly to Washington for them. Move from room to room following the arrows, approach the most interesting mammoths closely and look around by pressing the buttons.

Kremlin opening

A virtual tour of the Kremlin also opens objects closed to tourists, which are part of the Kremlin complex of the presidential residence. Do not forget to click on the sound: the text is not read by anyone, but by Batalov.

Collection of the State Hermitage: high resolution

This museum is distinguished by the fact that it is easy for the inexperienced to get lost in it. Yes, and really in a day, unless you consider a couple of halls - and your head is spinning. Let's start with training. This collection contains 100 images, including paintings that are not in the permanent collection of the Hermitage. It can be downloaded in 5441×4013 resolution, saying: “This is my size!”.

Uffizi Gallery

Once in the famous palace in Florence with its inhuman collection of European fine art, you move along the corridors in the same way as on Yandex maps - and with bated breath you are looking for Botticelli.

Frick Collection

Frick is in this case not an eccentric, but a famous American industrialist. Although he is also an eccentric: such masterpieces should be bequeathed to a public museum! On free visiting days, queues of thirsty people line up at his mansion, and we can view his treasures at home completely free of charge.

Prado Museum Online Gallery

The Spaniards do not offer to walk around the halls and turn their heads, but the picture from the collection that interests you can be seen in very good resolution. And they have a notable collection of European fine art.

Metropolitan Museum of Art Collection online

Here, too, instead of technical problems - great works. You search, you click, you open, you go crazy. You approach, you look, you hang. You can meditate on one Van Gogh for a day.

Virtual walks around the Russian Museum

You can walk through all the palaces, gardens and houses of Peter the Great with arrows - and read explanatory texts under the window of a virtual walk.

Reconstruction of the Tretyakov Gallery in 1898

The reconstruction was made according to photographs by Pavel Tretyakov. Walking through the 19th century, the migrant from the 21st century is helped by the scheme of rooms on the right - and the general view of the room is straight ahead. On which you can click, bringing each canvas closer. The site is loaded for a long time and pompously, but it's still interesting there.

Salvador Dali Museum (Florida)

We will consider the paintings of the great surah guru right in the interior - there is also information about them if you click on the plaque. You can “walk” not only around the exposition, but also in all other rooms, and around the museum.

Museum of Oriental Art (Chicago)

For lovers of mysterious shards, precious coins with proud profiles, rusty harness and other ancient stuff. Mesopotamia, Egypt, Assyria, Persia and Nubia online.

Moscow City Museum

If dear guests arrived in the dear capital on the day off of the museum of its history, this history can be studied at the computer, in a warm company, at home with Muscovite friends. I suppose they, too, have not yet reached there in this life. Bugs, yes, we understand.

Virtual tour of the Moscow Planetarium

According to the scheme, you can jump on all floors from zero to the third, along the icons that pop up along the way - in all halls. Examine devices and other interesting objects and read information about them. You can even look into a 4D cinema and a 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 from different angles, but also “leave their mark”: this tour has such a fun feature. However, if you wish, you can erase your trace.

Skansen in Chernivtsi

How to visit the most famous museums in the world without a queue and without tickets? How to visit the Louvre, the Prado and the Hermitage in one weekend? How to have time after school for an excursion to take a good look at the skull of a Neanderthal or a 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 advantages of virtual museum trips with children?

“Expensive, long, a lot of people” - for these reasons, families with children often refuse to visit large museums. But if you visit the museums of the world online, then you will not encounter either queues or crowds of tourists at the famous exhibits. Sitting in a comfortable chair, you can stroll through magnificent palaces or look at small details in Bosch paintings, map out a route for future excursions, and even travel through time.

You also do not have to worry about whether your child is capricious in the hall or gets tired. In the virtual museum, you will spend as much time 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 world museums online Google Art Project- a platform that hosts panoramas and images of works of art from many museums around the world.

Virtual tours of the Hermitage

Tour guides, trying to emphasize the richness of the collection of the State Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg), say that it will take 15 years to inspect all of its exhibits. Maybe today you have a free moment to get acquainted with the paintings of El Greco, the sculptures of Michelangelo or mechanical automatons? The In Focus project reveals the secrets of some of the exhibits, and the Masterpieces collection allows you to examine in detail about a thousand paintings, sculptures, archaeological finds and other priceless things. Such a virtual tour has its advantages: it also gives access to those exhibits that are not represented in the permanent exhibition.

On the Hermitage website, you can create your own collection of your favorite works and get directions through the halls, which will come in handy during a real tour of this museum. For more information about the exhibits, see the Hermitage page in the Google art project. There you can also take a virtual walk through several halls of the museum.

Virtual tours of the Louvre

The most famous work stored in the Louvre (Paris) is the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci. Meanwhile, there are more than 300,000 works of art in the Louvre collection. If you need to take a good look at the features of the Venus de Milo or write an essay based on Delacroix's painting "Liberty Leading the People", it is better not to use small reproductions in school textbooks, but to open a collection of selected works of the Louvre and admire its masterpieces.

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 usually they are located in another city or, worse, in another country. But in the modern world, this does not have to travel far. Mel has compiled for you a list of 15 museums that you can visit in any weather and at any time for free, from the comfort of your couch.

The museum complex on the Capitoline Hill in Rome is not just a few buildings with paintings and statues, it is almost like a whole city in miniature. Three palazzos (Palazzo Nuovo, Palazza dei Conservatori and Central Montemartini) are located on Capitoline Square, in the creation of which Michelangelo took an active part. And it's easy 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 exposition 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 includes several gardens and parks - there is something 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 the Museum of 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 our time) are placed in 70 galleries, detailed panoramas of which are on the site.

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 work of the artist himself. There are halls that are part of the exposition in themselves. The theatre-museum is best described by the words of Dali himself: “I want my museum to be a monolith, a labyrinth, a huge surrealistic object. It will be absolutely a theatrical museum. Those who come here will leave feeling as if they had a dream.”

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

The Louvre is the citadel of European art, the most popular and majestic place in Paris, always full of tourists. So complete that it is sometimes impossible to see the pictures themselves. The Louvre was originally built as the residence of the king, so everything in it breathes splendor. So far, only three routes are available in 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 site.

It was here that the residence of the king from the Louvre moved, this complex itself is a work of art. 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. The palace does not store 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. The British Museum is also a nationwide library, the funds of which include about seven million volumes of printed publications.

The gallery was founded by a merchant who owned one of the largest collections of Russian fine art. There is probably no child in Moscow who would not go on an excursion to the old red building in Lavrushinsky Lane. But if you still don’t have time or the opportunity to visit the museum, walk around it virtually: the tour is incredibly detailed.

A museum in Washington that is not to be missed: it is huge both outside and inside. By the set of exhibits, the museum resembles our Darwin Museum, but only the exposition is much more impressive. Such a set of butterflies and intoxicated marine reptiles (a gigantic squid, for example) is not found anywhere else in the world. Even in the museum, the department with huge dinosaurs and other fossils was closed for three years, but you can still stroll through these halls online!

Under the capacious sign "Vatican Museums" hides a galaxy of exhibition halls and galleries. The age of the most venerable expositions is five centuries old. During this time, museum curators managed to collect a stunning collection of sculptures, paintings, manuscripts, household items and religious art. And museums began with just one statue. Online you can walk around the Basilica of St. Peter, 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 walk through only one, the main one. It has an impressive Greek hall with a statue of Apollo, copies of the tombstones of the Borgia brothers and exhibits from the excavations 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 absorbed 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 some places you can even get lost inside, but, like in the Louvre, size does not always mean space. There are so many visitors in the Hermitage that you have to stand in a long line before entering, and it is not always possible to approach the necessary exhibits. Nobody will disturb you in 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, with which the Planetarium introduces visitors in an interesting and beautiful way. The museum is located on four floors and consists of several expositions: the Urania Museum, the Lunarium, the small and large Star Halls. By the way, the Star Halls deserve special attention: huge screens show educational programs that will be of interest to both children and adults. Unfortunately, you can’t watch them online, but you can walk through the halls of museums and even go to a cafe!

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

How virtual tours of museums are conducted, and why such a service is needed.

Many people would like to regularly visit interesting objects and galleries, but not everyone has enough time and opportunities for this (especially when it comes to museums in another country or city).

Online tours come to the rescue, which allow you to get acquainted with the exhibits without departing from.

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The essence of the concept

Typically, these are presented on the main website of a museum or gallery, and are technically implemented in the form of .

It consists of many panoramas by analogy with other similar services. You can "move" with the arrows on the screen, and in this way, inspect all available rooms.

Advice: For different establishments, the format of registration may vary slightly. But, often, it is quite simple, and the management of "movements" quickly becomes intuitive. Usually, there are arrows on the screen, which indicate the possible directions of movement.

They are created by developers at the initiative of the owners. They allow you to get acquainted with exhibitions and collections, and are also able to stimulate the viewer's interest in a real visit.

Louvre

You can take a tour of some of the rooms of the Louvre by going here. Not all exhibits are presented on the site, and there are no temporary exhibitions and expositions. But you can visit the following:

• Egyptian archeology;
• Medieval Louvre (dedicated to the legacy of the time when the building was the palace of the French kings);
• Apollo Gallery.

To view the hall, you need to select the one you are interested in on the page that opens via the link.

Under its description, click on the Launch Virtual Tour button, and in the window that opens, hover over the exhibits and click on them.

Below the main window there is a field with a description, and a map where you can choose the exhibitions of interest.

In order to make an online tour of the Hermitage, you must follow the link. The application was created on the same engine as, therefore, using it is quite convenient and familiar.

The window can be expanded to full screen.

The tour starts in the central gallery, in order to “go” to the neighboring ones, left-click on the image of the doors.

There is an image of a compass in the lower right corner of the main tour window. With it, you can change the direction of the camera by moving it left and right.

Next to the compass there are buttons with the numbers 0 and 1 - they indicate the floors of the palace-museum.

It is in many ways similar to the Tretyakovskaya. Here, for inspection, works of art belonging to a private collector are also presented.

There is virtual access to almost all rooms. On the main page of the site, which opens on the link, there is a diagram of the premises. Choose what you want and click on it.

An online panorama of the selected room will open in a new window. You can control camera movements in a standard way - by moving the mouse while holding down the left button.

Also at the bottom of the screen there is a menu to control the movement using the buttons.

In the upper right corner of the screen there is a field, when clicked, a complete list of halls available for inspection opens. You can select the one you are interested in.

Brazilian writer and poet Paulo Coelho advised travelers: Avoid visiting museums. Being in a foreign city, it would be more interesting for me to learn about the present of this city than about its past. Museums should be visited, but there should be enough time for this.” A Polish satirist Ryszard Podlewski once said: " there are things you have to see to know they're not worth watching."

Guided by the words of famous people, we offer links to virtual tours of famous museums in the world. Having previously familiarized yourself with the presented expositions, you can 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, get comfortable in your chair and explore the museum exhibits.

Virtual tours of the most famous museums in the world

Louvre- the largest and most visited museum in the world (about 10 million tourists a year). The ancient royal palace, which exhibits the art collections of the French monarchs, is located in the center of Paris, on the banks of the Seine. Its popularity means inevitable queues at the entrance, in which you can stand for several hours!

If you spend 10 hours to inspect the entire museum, then you can devote only 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 Appalon Gallery.

Five museums on Museum Island are part of the Association of State Museums. IN old museum exhibited part of the Antique collection from the collection of ancient Greek art. New Museum after opening in 2009, it received the exposition of the Egyptian Museum and the collection of papyri. Many tourists come here to see the famous bust of the ancient Egyptian queen Nefertiti. The New Museum also has a prehistoric exposition dating back to the Stone Age and other very ancient eras.