Wonderful Online Museums and Sites for Virtual Field Trips to Use in Class
If you want to use Google Arts & Culture on your mobile device you will have the added feature of Art Recogniser which allows you to learn more about artworks by simply pointing your device camera at them.
1- National Portrait Gallery
The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery tells the history of America through individuals who have shaped its culture. Through the visual arts, performing arts and new media, the Portrait Gallery portrays poets and presidents, visionaries and villains, actors and activists whose lives tell the American story.
2- Smithsonian Museum
3- The Field Museum
The Field Museum’s 25 million objects—from Antarctic dinosaurs to Peruvian plants, from Inuit masks to Tanzanian mammals—are the lifeblood of the Museum, and an unparalleled resource to the world scientific community. ‘Its collections hold answers to fundamental questions about our planet, its life, and its cultures. In an increasingly virtual world, our specimens are the real, concrete evidence of life on Earth.’
4- The British Museum
5- Science Museum
Science Museum helps you explore the home of human ingenuity online. Find out about our objects, arts projects and medical collection, play educational games and discover climate science.”
6- National Women’s History Museum
7- Memorial Hall Museum Online
8- American Museum of Natural History
The American Museum of Natural History is one of the world’s preeminent scientific and cultural institution. The Museum is renowned for its exhibitions and scientific collections, which serve as a field guide to the entire planet and present a panorama of world’s cultures.
9- World Wide Museum of Natural History
- The life galleries(vertebrate and invertebrate) are home to some of the most interesting fossils ever found including dinosaurs, ammonites, crinoids, mammals, early life, insects and more
- The WMNH also features galleries of existing life such as Lepidoptera (butterflies/moths) and wildflowers of the American prairie.
- The Astronomy and Geology galleries include meteorites, comets and geology.”
10. The Louvre
11-Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History “allow visitors to take self-guided, room-by-room tours of select exhibits and areas within the museum from their desktop or mobile device. Visitors can also access select collections and research areas at our satellite support and research stations as well as past exhibits no longer on display”.
12- Moon Tour
With Moon in Google Earth, you can:
- Take tours of landing sites, narrated by Apollo astronauts
- View 3D models of landed spacecraft
- Zoom into 360-degree photos to see astronauts’ footprints
- Watch rare TV footage of the Apollo missions
13. The Van Gogh Museum
14. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
World-renowned paintings by Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Cassatt—as well as the finest group of Monets outside of Paris and one of the richest collections of prints and drawings in the world—share space with mummies, sculpture, ceramics, and gold from ancient Egypt, Greece, the Near East, and the Roman Empire, and masterpieces of African and Oceanic art from the 16th to the 20th centuries”.
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