Self-isolation never looked so good.
Look, Netflix is great. And naturally, we all adore our Stan and Amazon Prime Video subscriptions too. But every now and then, one’s soul simply yearns for something a little more high-brow. But who wants to abandon their hard-won toilet paper stockpile to the care of their shady next-door neighbour? Well, happily, you don’t have to.
Thanks to Google’s Arts and Culture Hub, you can now tour up to 500 of the world’s best museums and galleries without sacrificing appropriate social distance or even leaving the comfort of your couch.
Google’s Arts and Culture Collection includes the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, twelve online exhibits from The National Gallery in London, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam and the Musée D’Orsay in Paris.
You can browse the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, virtually wander through the corridors of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul, and even experience a street-view tour of the Rijksmuseum in the Netherlands.
You can soak up some culture in the halls of the Uffizi Gallery in Firenze, virtually walk down the famous spiral staircase at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, and take a street view tour of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.
Google Arts and Culture also allows you to virtually visit thousands of places which, under the current coronavirus pandemic conditions, are either closed or unsafe to visit.
Including the Temple of Concordia in Italy, virtual tours of The Louvre, the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico, check out the ancient artefacts on display at the British Museum in London and even visit the remote Rapa Nui in Chile.
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