Museum Virtual Tours
Take your child on a tour of museums, galleries & places of cultural interest around the world! Have a look at the links below:
- Join in with the Google Cultural Institute to explore artists from around the world or take a walk around Machu Picchu as if you were right there, with Google Arts & Culture
- Sit back and enjoy twelve famous museums that offer virtual tours you can take on your couch.
- Dip in to the Museum of London’s Early Years Toolkit to explore a universe of subjects from how to create learning spaces to messy play to how creativity supports early brain and body development.
- Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, brings their stunning Galleries Day to the world’s living rooms, online for the first time, with 300+ artists available to view, many with 360 degree views within the gallery spaces: https://www.artsy.net/feature/alserkal-art-week.
- Creativity at Home – one beautiful activity to do EVERY week from the Glucksman contemporary art museum in Cork, Ireland, based on their collections: http://www.glucksman.org/events.
- A fabulous messy-drawing activity book from The National Portrait Gallery, featuring portraits of famous thinkers and doers of our time, for embellishing with your own creations: https://www.npg.org.uk/assets/files/pdf/learning/NPG_activity_book_playful_portraits.pdf
- Kids in Museums have put together some of the fun digital activities that you can enjoy from home: https://kidsinmuseums.org.uk/2020/03/10-museum-activities-to-keep-children-entertained/
- How do you turn a series of dusty collections into the ‘most joyful museum in the world’? Find out how many top museums have redesigned their programmes, inspired by the things that most excite and engage young children: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/jan/19/museum-science-lab-playground-children-fun-architects