Downtime

Unique experiences for your day off

By Meaghan Branham

VIRTUAL MUSEUM TOURS From ancient artifacts to Renaissance masterpieces to natural history, museums hold some of the most precious items known to humanity inside their walls. For those yearning to see these collections, many prominent museums are featuring virtual tours on their websites. These include the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the Vatican Museums in Rome, the Guggenheim in New York City, the Natural History Museum in London, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in South Korea, the Uffizi Gallery in Tuscany and the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. From walk-throughs to audio guides to slideshows, each finds a way to immerse you in the rich history and culture it celebrates, even half a world away.

www.travelandleisure.com/ attractions/museums-galleries/ museums-with-virtual-tours

Musée d'Orsay in Paris

The Night Watch by Rembrandt at Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam Sistine Chapel in Rome

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec at Musée d'Orsay in Paris

Getty Museum Paneled Room Gallery of Honour at Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam

ONLINE CLASSES Want to learn more about the computing data inside your smartphone? How about ancient philosophy? Social impact strategy? Eighteenth-century opera? Freecodecamp.org has compiled a list of 450 free online classes from Ivy League schools, available for people who are looking to expand their horizons. With no textbooks or tuition required, these courses include video segments and readings curated by professors and vetted by students. Classes fall into categories that include computer science, data science, programming, humanities, business, art and design, science, social sciences, health and medicine, engineering, mathematics, education and teaching, and personal development. Physical activity has been proven to reduce stress, but perfecting a workout routine at home can be hard. Luckily, there are resources designed to make it easier to get started and stay motivated. Apps like ClassPass and Yoga Collective offer videos and workout regimes for everyone, regardless of fitness level or equipment available. Many gyms are offering at-home fitness classes now as well. Orangetheory

www.freecodecamp.org/news/ivy-league-freeonline-courses-a0d7ae675869

To scan the QR Codes, just point the camera app on your smartphone toward the page and follow the instructions on your smartphone screen.

E-BOOKS AND AUDIOBOOKS If you’ve run out of titles to read from your own bookshelves, there are plenty of places to find e-books and audiobooks online. Try Libby, a free app that works with your local library to get you digital access to e-books and audiobooks. You can sign up with your existing library card, but if you don’t have one yet, don’t worry — many libraries allow you to sign up for a digital card and use that to rent and hold digital versions of the books you’ve been wanting to read. You can also sign up for Audible, a subscription service through Amazon that charges you a monthly fee that includes one credit a month to download an audiobook, although you can purchase more for the regular price at any time. Project Gutenberg offers free access to e-books that are in the public domain, and Open Library is a content repository being developed to include every book ever published.

www.overdrive.com/apps/libby www.audible.com www.gutenberg.org

WORK OUT AT HOME www.openlibrary.org offers a daily 30-minute workout routine on its website that requires no equipment, while Rumble is using Instagram Live to stream its daily videos. Planet Fitness, Gold’s Gym, 24-Hour Fitness and others are also offering online workout routines to do from home. You can even find dance classes and yoga routines on many of these sites.

SEE THE FULL LIST HERE: www.goodhousekeeping.com/health/fitness/a31792038/ coronavirus-live-stream-workout-classes