Arts

Google Arts & Culture: +2000 partners from +80 countries

Heritage on the Edge: A project of Google Arts & Culture

Europeana: 50,000,000 European works of art, books, music, and more Smithsonian Open Access: Search 2.8 million images and 3D Models ArtUK: Art collections from 3,200 UK organizations

Mexican Ministry of Culture: Short films, books, radio, paintings, from all cultural orgs

Memorica: Open access Mexican culture content portal

China’s National Cultural Heritage Administration: Virtual portal of 100 institutions

OpenGLAM: Aggregates 88 unique open collections

NASA Image & Video Library: All NASA content is in the public domain

DPLA: Digital Public Library of America

MIMO: Musical Instrument Museums Online (64,000+ instruments) BioExplora: Natural science open collections portal (3D images, bio diversity)

Science Museum Group: Collections from five UK science museums (325,000+ objects)

York Museums Trust: Collections from various museums in Yorkshire, UK Archaeological Analytics: Archaeological Open Access Collections

Digital Agnes: Canadian portal for curatorial research and online exhibitions

English Heritage: Variety of mediums of British content (Podcasts, videos, etc.) Creative Commons: Aggregates all CC-licensed content and collections globally Wikimedia Commons: Over 20,000,000 open images

Wikidata: “The Sum of all Paintings” metadata initiative via Wikimedia

Open Culture Coloring Pages: 113 museum coloring books

Global Museum: Portal for museum news, jobs, and resources

V21ArtSpace: Over 100 exhibit virtual tours

Arte.tv: Cultural documentaries, films, and more.

Virtual Tours

Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford: Virtual Tour

Dalí Theatre-Museum, Catalonia: Virtual Tour

The Vatican: 360-degree Museum Tours

The Palace Museum: The Forbidden City, China, 360-degree Virtual Tour

Hallwyl Museum, Stockholm: VR Tour

Byzantine and Christian Virtual Museum: Virtual Tour

The Louvre, Paris: Virtual Tour

The Hermitage, Russia: Virtual Tour (YouTube) Westminster Abbey, London: Virtual Tour

Canadian Museum of History: Virtual Tour

The Science Museum, London: Shipping Galleries Virtual Tour

Museum of Flight: Virtual Tour

Florence as it Was: 3D models of Florentine buildings, artworks, and squares

The Kremer Museum: VR Tour

Mexican National Institute of Anthropology & History: Virtual Tours (Flash) National Museum of Natural History, US: Virtual Tour

National Archaeological Museum, Spain: Virtual Museum

São Paolo Museum of Art: Virtual Tour

The Frick, Pittsburgh: Virtual tours, online collections, activities Cranbrook Art Museum, Michigan: Exhibit Virtual Tours American Battlefield Trust: 360-degree Battlefield Tours National Museum of the Great Lakes: Virtual Tour

Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello: Virtual Tour

George Washington’s Mount Vernon: Virtual Tours, timelines, etc.

Yellowstone National Park, US: Virtual Tours

Yosemite National Park, US: Virtual Tour Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum: Virtual Tour Cliffe Castle Museum: Virtual Tour

National Museum of the U.S. Air Force: Virtual Tour

Arizona State Museum: Virtual Tour

Vizcaya Museum and Gardens: Virtual Tour

Online Museum Exhibits

Girl Museum: Online Exhibits

Virtual Migration Museum: Interactive Online Experience / App

JFK Library: “Moonshot” App and Online Interactive

Virtual Museum of Canada: Virtual Exhibits and Cultural Content

Museum of Ontario Archaeology: “History of Ste. Marie II” Online Exhibit

Monterey Bay Aquarium: Animal Live Cams

Canadian Museum of History: Online Exhibitions

Remembering Lincoln, Ford’s Theatre: Interactive online exhibit

M Woods, Beijing, China: Experimental Online Exhibition

Second Canvas Apps: 30 Museum Apps (Google Sheet)

Reina Sofía Museum Radio: Audiovisual resources; an acoustic museum experience

Smithsonian Latino Virtual Museum

National Museum of the U.S. Navy National Women’s History Museum Smithsonian Learning Lab

MoMA Learning

Speed Art Museum: At-home art-making videos

The Field Museum: The Brain Scoop (YouTube)

North Carolina Museum of Art: Learn, (collections, videos, curriculum) Sketchfab: 3D Models (link goes to cultural-specific search)

The Hammer: Contemporary Art programs, (YouTube)

Royal Albert Memorial Museum: Exeter Time Trail (Interactive timeline) Les Fruits de Mer: Activities, books, films about Caribbean wildlife

Museum of Early Trade and Crafts: Recipes, Games, Coloring Pages, etc. Museum Strathroy-Cardoc: Sydenham River Discovery online exhibit (Flash)

Denver Art Museum: Artist videos

Thomas Cole National Historic Site: Videos

Virginia Museum of History & Culture: Lecture series videos

Better World Museum: Draw Together in VR, Bob Ross-style videos Discover XR: The Future of Social Media & Online Learning (YouTube) KaiXR: Free Museum VR Field Trips (no VR gear needed) HistoryView.org: Virtual Reality Tours

Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum: Activities, Coloring Pages

Paleontological Research Institution: Resources for Families, K-12 Students, College Students

Tate: Tate Kids (Games and quizzes, videos, kids’ art, etc.)

Metropolitan Museum of Art: MetKids

Exploratorium: Science Experiment “Snacks”

American Museum of Natural History: Ology science website for kids

Shedd Aquarium: Sea Curious- Kid Questions, Animal Answers (YouTube)

Glazer Children’s Museum: Online Activities

Children’s Museum of South Dakota: Recipes for Play

Suzhou Museum: Online Mini-Games

Pittsburgh Children’s Museum: The MAKESHOP Show (Makerspace Blog) The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis: Museum at Home

Long Island Children’s Museum: Play Outside Ideas

Norton Simon Museum: Art Projects for Kids (scroll to section) The Kennedy Center: ArtsEdge, art education resources

Canadian Museum of Nature: Coloring Pages, Arctic, Garden, Dinosaurs MCA Chicago: “Art Like Me” Culturally-Relevant Art Workbook for Kids National Museum of Australia: “Fun at Home” DIY activities

Smarthistory: Source of history content for Khan Academy

Frist Kids: Art activities and videos

iCivics: Virtual games (free beginning with Covid-19)

International Association of Children in Museums: Coronavirus Guide

Rijksstudio: Remix collections from Rijksmuseum

Naturalis: 40,000,000 natural science collections objects

SMK Open: National Gallery of Denmark Collections

The Belvedere, Vienna, Austria

Canadian Museum of History

UK Postal Museum

South West Collections, England

Brooklands Museum, Surrey, UK (cars, motorcycles, aircraft) Birmingham Museums Trust, Birmingham, UK (art and history)

Paris Museums: Over 300,000 works

Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland

Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

Kröller-Müller Museum, The Netherlands

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid, Spain

Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway (art by Edvard Munch) Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

Museum of New Zealand

Open Access at the Met

New York Archaeological Repository: Nearly 1,000,000 objects

Cooper Hewitt, New York (historical and contemporary design) Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Albright-Knox, New York

The Barnes Collection, Philadelphia

The Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Pennsylvania

Corning Museum of Glass, New York

The Guggenheim, New York

Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Arts, Arizona

The Henry Ford, Michigan

Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University

Akron Art Museum, Ohio

Oakland Museum of California

National Museum of African American History & Culture

Chicago History Museum, Illinois

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (visual, performing, media arts) The Hammer, LA (contemporary art)

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) Crocker Art Museum, California

The Walters, Baltimore

Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University

Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois

The Khalili Collections: 35,000 works of art

M+ Collections: 5,000+ Cultural Objects

Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture

Latino Cultural Arts Center, Denver

Digital Cleveland History

New Museum Digital Archive

Royal Armouries Collections

The Latin American Art Museum of Buenos Aires (MALBA) Xul Solar Museum, Argentina

National Museum of Fine Arts, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts