Virtual Museums

Here are 12 museums that you can visit virtually right now:
(Links are in the text!)

Guggenheim Museum, New York

See online exhibitions like But a Storm Is Blowing From Paradise: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa and The Little-Known Glass Works of Josef Albers here and virtually tour the building here (you’d save yourself $25).

British Museum, London

Tour the museum’s Great Court and discover the ancient Rosetta Stone here.

Musée d’Orsay, Paris

Get a close look at the works of Monet, Cézanne, Gauguin, and hundreds of other French painters here.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Walk among Vermeer, Rembrandt, and many more masters from the Dutch Golden Age here.

Pergamon Museum, Berlin

The Pergamon is one of Germany’s largest museums and it’s home for the Ishtar Gate of Babylon and the Greek Pergamon Altar. Visit it here.

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul

Catch up on the best of contemporary art from Korea here.

National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Explore an exhibition of American fashion from 1740 to 1895 and a collection of Vermeer paintings here.

Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

Here is where you can find the largest collection of artworks by van Gogh, including more than 200 paintings, 500 drawings, and over 750 personal letters.

Louvre, Paris

The Louvre doesn’t need Google to create online tours for itself. It has its own virtual tours, thank you very much.

MASP, São Paulo

The Museu de Arte de São Paulo is Brazil’s first modern art museum. Do visit it here.

The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Travel back in time to the 8th century with this collection of European paintings, drawings, sculpture, illuminated manuscripts, decorative arts, and European, Asian, and American photographs. 

Uffizi Gallery, Florence

Italy was hit hardest by the virus in Europe. Show some solidarity and pay this magnificent gallery a visit.