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Museum (virtual) Tours

Le Musee de Louvre, Paris. louvre.fr/en/ visites-en-ligne The Louvre, the world’s largest art and antiques museum, was forced to close its doors as Paris went into lockdown. While you can no longer waltz into its famous glass exterior, you can learn something of the phenomenal collection via a number of virtual tours, charting everything from Egyptian antiquities to the Galerie d’Apollon.

The British Museum, London. britishmuseum.withgoogle.com The UK capital’s famed museum has hooked up with Google Arts & Culture, along with more than 2,000 other leading institutions, to offer an interactive tour. Wander through time and click on different artefacts to see them up close, read up on their history, and hear more information with an audio guide.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. artsandculture.google.com/ partner/rijksmuseum Stuffed with masterpieces from the Dutch Golden Age, the Rijksmuseum is one of Amsterdam’s most popular attractions. It’s closed until 1 June, but has just launched a new interactive experience, Rijksmuseum From Home, that allows you to virtually visit the home of Rembrandt’s The Nightwatch and Vermeer’s The Milkmaid. In a collaboration with Google, there’s also the chance to explore 11 “exhibits”, where you’re able to interact with various works from the museum, read about their history and see close-ups of the pieces.

Musee d’Orsay, Paris. artsandculture.google.com/partner/musee-dorsay-paris Housed in the fabulous former Orsay railway station, the Musee d’Orsay displays art dating from 1848 to 1914. An online tour goes through the history of the building, first constructed for the Universal Exhibition of 1900. Viewers can also explore some of the most famous pieces in the collection, including one of Van Gogh’s self-portraits, and take a virtual wander through the galleries.

Guggenheim, New York. artsandculture. google.com/streetview/solomon-r-guggenheim-museum-interior-streetview New York City’s iconic gallery has a Google Street View tour where you can “amble” along its winding corridor and view works up close, such as Catherine Opie’s daring Self Portrait/Pervert triptych; Ivan Navarro’s installation Homeless 12 | JUNE 2020 | FRESNO FLYER |

Lamp, the Juice Sucker; and Ovitz’s Library by Jonas Wood. On top of that, you can also simply gaze upon the building’s remarkable architecture.

Uffizi Gallery, Florence. artsandculture. google.com/partner/uffizi-gallery This gallery houses the art collection of the Medicis inside a 16th-century building. Online, there are four exhibitions that take viewers through various works, explaining their significance and showing close-ups of important details within the paintings. See such works as Piero di Cosimo’s Perseus Freei n g Andromeda

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The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC. https://naturalhistory2.si.edu/vt3/NMNH/ Move at your own pace through the 360-degree room-by-room tour of every exhibit in the museum.

The Getty Museum, Los Angeles. https:// artsandculture.google.com/partner/the-jpaul-getty-museum?hl=en Los Angeles’s premiere gallery has two virtual tours, including “Eat, Drink, and Be Merry,” which is a closer look at food in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid. https://www.museothyssen.org/en/thyssenmultimedia Madrid’s must-see art museum has the works of some of the continent’s most celebrated artists like Rembrandt and Dali available online.

Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. https:// artsandculture.google.com/partner/georgia-o-keeffe-museum?hl=en Six virtual exhibits are available online from this museum named for the “Mother of American modernism.”

National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City. https://artsandculture.google.com/ asset/the-national-museum-of-anthropology-mexico-city-ziko-van-dijk-wikimedia-commons/bAGSHRdlzSRcdQ?hl=en Dive into the pre-Hispanic history of Mexico with 23 exhibit rooms full of Mayan artifacts.

NASA. Both Virginia’s Langley Research Center - https://oh.larc.nasa.gov/oh/ - and Ohio’s Glenn Research Center - https:// www.nasa.gov/glennvirtualtours - offer online tours for free. Also, you can try some “augmented reality experiences” via The Space Center Houston’s app. https://spacecenter.org/app/

National Women’s History Museum, Virginia. https://www.womenshistory.org/womens-history/ online-exhibits Have a late International Women’s Day celebration with online exhibits and oral histories from the Virginia museum.

Metropolitan Museum of Art. https://artsandculture.google.com/ streetview/metropolitan-museum-of-art

Though the Met Gala was cancelled this year, you can still have a peak at the The Costume Institute Conversation Lab, which is one of the institution’s 26 online exhibits.

High Museum of Art, Atlanta. https:// artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/civil-rights-photography/9wISPkiyouv-Lw?hl=en This museum’s popular online exhibits include “Civil Rights Photography” — photos that capture moments of social protest like the Freedom Rides and Rosa Park’s arrest.

Detroit Institute of Arts. https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/detroit-institute-of-arts?hl=en Mexican art icon Frida Kahlo is the focal point of two of the four available online exhibits.

National Museum of the United States Air Force. https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/ Visit/Virtual-Tour/ You can’t take a ride in Franklin D. Roosevelt’s presidential airplane, but you can check it out, in addition to other military weapons and aircraft, online in the Air Force’s official museum.

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York. https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/ sophie-taeuber-arp/swKioHNhYqZoLw?hl=en New York’s MoMA has it’s extensive collection available online.

The National Museum of Computing, Milton Keynes, UK. https://www.tnmoc.org/news-releases/2017/6/6/3d-virtual-tour-now-online?rq=virtual The National Museum of Computing contains the world’s largest collection of working historic computers. The museum features a fantastic, intuitive, virtual 3D tour. You can zoom in on each exhibit’s details, and find out more about every aspect of computing history, such as the world’s oldest working digital computer.

Ivy League Classes

Free Online Ivy League College Courses. https://www.classcentral.com/collection/ ivy-league-moocs Class Central offers free, online instruction courses from Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton, and Yale. Many of the classes are self-paced, and they offer personalized course recommendation and course/subject tracking with reminders.

Self-Improvement

Live guitar lessons with Benjamin Napoles. https://www.facebook.com/benjamin.napoles Benjamin is offering ONLINE GUITAR LESSONS!! Please Share. You can take advantage of being home and learn how to jam! We will learn songs for you to sing and/or play with friends. You will learn chords/ scales/ theory and have fun improvising over your favorite songs! Lets make the best out of this time. FIRST LESSON FREE!!! 20$ a half a hour first lesson free. Available w/ ZOOM, Skype, Messenger, and FaceTime.

The Kitchn’s Cooking School. www.thekitchn.com/collection/cooking-school-373 The Kitchn’s Cooking School is a 20-day, 20-lesson program where students tackle an essential cooking topic each day. You’ll even have homework! Free to join at their website.

Delia Online Cookery School. www.deliaonline.com/how-to-cook Delia Online features a host of cooking technique articles of varying levels of difficulty. Each lesson has step-bystep instructions with photos.

Free Online Drawing Lessons from Kline Creative. http://www.klinecreative.com/free-