Museums from Home: virtual tours while in isolation
The Team at Kate Vass Galerie has made a selection of some of the best virtual tours now available online from different museums worldwide. A journey through incredible art and architecture to be enjoyed for free from the comfort of your home thanks to the great power of new technologies.
This award-winning series of six short videos invites viewers around the world to virtually visit The Met's art and architecture in a fresh, immersive way. Created using spherical 360° technology, it allows viewers to explore some of the Museum's iconic spaces as never before.
LACMA | Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Being the LACMA closed just like all other cultural institutions, the museum just introduced LACMA @ Home: on its homepage you will find links to free enriching and inspiring content for you to Watch, Listen, Learn, Read, and Browse at home.
No need to say we recommend the Art + Technology Lab videos! At LACMA, the Art + Technology Lab supports artist experiments with emerging technology.
Since its founding, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum has maintained a belief in the transformative powers of art. In uncertain times such as these, art can provide both solace and inspiration. Although the catalytic Frank Lloyd Wright-designed building is temporarily closed, the Guggenheim Museum remains a virtual community committed to igniting ideas, discussion and creativity.
The Museum offers different ways to connect with its curators, artists, exhibitions, and collections from your own home.
You can take the virtual tour of the Guggenheim Museum on Google Arts & Culture.
View of the virtual tour of the Guggenheim Museum on Google Arts & Culture.
"The Vatican, the Museum of Museums," not only houses the extensive collections of art, archaeology and ethno-anthropology gathered by the Popes over the centuries, but also contains some of the Apostolic Palace’s most extraordinary and artistically significant rooms.
For their 360° Virtual Tours follow the link below:
www.museivaticani.va/content/museivaticani/it/collezioni/musei/tour-virtuali-elenco.html
View of the Sistine Chapel 360° virtual tour from Musei Vaticani
Sensing Spaces: Architecture Reimagined Conceived by Kate Goodwin, Drue Heinz Curator of Architecture at the Royal Academy of Arts, the exhibition creates, above all else, an essential interaction between three factors: the nature and quality of physical spaces, how we perceive them, and their resulting evocative power.
Installation view of the virtual tour at the RA which allows users to explore the Royal Academy’s Sensing Spaces exhibition
The Museum of Contemporary Art recently launched Virtual MOCA as a way to stay connected and build community.
The museum has created new and daily series that is available on moca.org and across MOCA’s social media platforms: Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.Check their website for a full schedule of offerings:
www.moca.org/virtual-moca
Virtual MOCA
And if you still can’t get enough of Art, you can always visit Google Arts & Culture platform which features content from over 2000 leading museums and archives who have partnered with the Google Cultural Institute!