Virtual Tours You Can Take Include Magic Kingdom, Animal Kingdom, and Epcot, Just to Name a Few
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
Zoos The Cincinnati Zoo: Check in around 3 p.m., because that’s the time the Zoo holds a daily Home Safari on its Facebook Live Feed. Atlanta Zoo: The Georgia zoo keeps a “Panda Cam” livestream on its website. Georgia Aquarium: Sea-dwellers like African penguins and Beluga Whales are the stars of this aquarium’s live cam. Houston Zoo: There are plenty of different animals you can check in on with this zoo’s live cam, but we highly recommend watching the playful elephants. The Shedd Aquarium: This Chicago aquarium shares some pretty adorable behind-the-scenes footage of their residents on Facebook. San Diego Zoo: With what may be the most live cam options, this zoo lets you switch between koalas, polar bears, and tigers in one sitting. Monterey Bay Aquarium: It can be Shark Week every week thanks to live online footage of Monterey Bay’s Habitat exhibit. National Aquarium: Walk through tropical waters to the icy tundra in this floor-by- floor tour of the famous, Baltimore-based aquarium. Philadelphia’s Zoo at 2 – The Philadelphia Zoo also offers a weekly Facebook Live session called Philly Zoo at 2, which runs every weekday at 2 pm EST. This week kids met the zoo’s brand new baby sloth bear cub, who is quite possible the cutest fuzzy creature ever. Kids will love learning about all the wild animals that call the Philadelphia Zoo home. Elmwood Park Zoo – Zoo school and animal cams Cape May County Zoo & Park – Virtual Zoo School Pittsburgh Zoo – Penguin Cam I Speak for Animals: – This program is a half-hour animal advocacy program hosted by Gary Martin. Theme Parks Walt Disney World: Set aside some time, because there’s plenty to see here. Virtual tours you can take include Magic Kingdom, Animal Kingdom, and Epcot, just to name a few. There are also unofficial YouTube videos that feel just like you’re on famous rides like the Frozen Ever After ride, It’s a Small World, Monsters, Inc. Mike & Sulley to the Rescue!, and Pirates of the Caribbean. LEGOLAND Florida Resort: The Great Lego Race and Miniland USA are just two of the attractions you can check out in a virtual tour of the park. SeaWorld Orlando: The virtual tour of Seaworld includes a tour of Discovery Cove and the option to”ride” the steel roller coaster Mako Resources sourced from : ( Bourque, K. (2020, April 3). Famous Museums and Attractions Like the Louvre Are Offering Free Virtual Tours. Retrieved from https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/travel/a31784720/best-virtual-tours/) Museums The Louvre: You don’t have to book a ticket to Paris to check out some of the famous pieces in the world’s largest art museum. The Louvre has free online tours of three famous exhibits, including Egyptian Antiquities. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum: The works of Pablo Picasso, Piet Mondrian, Jeff Koons, and Franz Marc are just some of the 625 artists whose work are a part of the Guggenheim’s Collection Online. Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History: Move at your own pace through the 360-degree room-by-room tour of every exhibit in the museum. Van Gogh Museum: You can get up close and personal with the impressionist painter’s most famous work thanks to Google Arts & Culture. Getty Museum: Los Angeles’s premiere gallery has two virtual tours, including “Eat, Drink, and Be Merry,” which is a closer look at food in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. The Vatican Museum: The Sistine Chapel, St. Peter’s Basilica, and Raphael’s Room, are just some of the sites you can see on the Vatican’s virtual tour. Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum: Madrid’s must-see art museum has the works of some of the continent’s most celebrated artists like Rembrandt and Dali available online. Georgia O’Keeffe Museum: Six virtual exhibits are available online from this museum named for the “Mother of American modernism.” National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City: Dive into the pre-Hispanic history of Mexico with 23 exhibit rooms full of Mayan artifacts. British Museum, London: The Rosetta Stone and Egyptian mummies are just a couple of things that you’re able to see on a virtual tour of the museum. NASA: Both Virginia’s Langley Research Center and Ohio’s Glenn Research Center offer online tours for free. Also, you can try some “augmented reality experiences” via The Space Center Houston’s app. National Women’s History Museum: Have a late International Women’s Day celebration with online exhibits and oral histories from the Virginia museum. Metropolitan Museum of Art: Though the Met Gala was cancelled this year, you can still have a peak at the The Costume Institute Conversation Lab, which is one of the institution’s 26 online exhibits. High Museum of Art, Atlanta: This museum’s popular online exhibits include “Civil Rights Photography” — photos that capture moments of social protest like the Freedom Rides and Rosa Park’s arrest. Detroit Institute of Arts: Mexican art icon Frida Kahlo is the focal point of two of the four available online exhibits. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam: The Golden Age of Dutch art is highlighted in this museum which includes the work of Vermeer and Rembrandt. National Museum of the United States Air Force: You can’t take a ride in Franklin D. Roosevelt’s presidential airplane, but you can check it out, in addition to other military weapons and aircraft, online in the Air Force’s official museum. MoMA (The Museum of Modern Art): New York’s extensive collection is available for view online. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The 16 virtual exhibits include a special section on 21st Century Designer Fashion. The Musee d’Orsay – The Musee d’Orsay, which displays collections of art from the period 1848 to 1914. The National Gallery of Art – The nation’s museum – preserves, collects, exhibits, and fosters an understanding of works of art. The Brant Foundation – Art Activities The National History Museum of Utah – Designed with middle-schoolers in mind, the free daily classes are taught by museum educators, and cover such cool subjects as dinosaurs and ancient forests. The classes run each weekday at 9:30 am MDT, but if you can’t make it to the live classes, they’re all archived online for viewing anytime. The Philadelphia Museum of Art is one of the largest art museums in the country — and an absolute must-see on the city’s cultural circuit. A major bonus: The institution hosts much of its stellar collection online. Search by artist to find masterworks from Mary Cassatt, Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol and more, or search by collector to learn which types of works some of the museum’s benefactors favored. For a real highlight, go on an in-depth, guided tour of the attraction’s entire collection of South Asian Art, with detailed looks at the museum’s epic Pillared Temple Hall as well as guided looks at architecture, paint and more. Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens – Take in artist Isaiah Zagar’s mosaicked masterpiece on South Street online via a virtual 360-degree tour. The attraction’s captivating tiled passages — weaving both over- and underground — inspire creativity from every angle. Downloadable activity pages invite virtual visitors to make a mosaic at home, complete a Magic Gardens maze and color some cool illustrations. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts – Take to the internet to peruse the stunning and varied collection of historic, modern and contemporary American art that lives at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), and see works by masters like Thomas Eakins, Mary Cassatt, Alice Neel, Andy Warhol, and Kehinde Wiley. PAFA’s YouTube channel features a wealth of videos — past artist talks, discussions with curators and lectures — for your viewing pleasure as well, and don’t miss the live online events and conversations. There’s a 360-degree virtual tour of the Historic Landmark Building and Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building available online, too. PENN Museum – Set aside time to travel through time — thousands of years, give or take — in the digital archives of the Penn Museum, home to a million objects and artifacts from around the globe. Start your online exploration with the anthropology and archeology museum’s collection highlights, like the 25,000- pound, 3,000-year-old Sphinx of Ramses. Virtual visitors can also take a close look at pieces from Mexico, Central America, Africa and other parts of the world as they learn about ancient civilizations, economies and colonization and watch fascinating videos that include archival footage of early 20th-century native life in the Phillippines and the excavation of royal tombs in southern Iraq. The National Museum of American Jewish History posts all its videos to its Facebook page, including a speech by 2019 exhibit muse Ruth Bader Ginsburg, interactive experiences from the Jewish New Media Festival and thought-provoking discussions on historical and current topics like anti- Semitism. National Marian Anderson Museum – On Easter Sunday in April 1939, Marian Anderson — truly one of the world’s greatest contraltos — overcame racial barriers to give a command performance at the Lincoln Memorial. Learn more about the great singer’s history and home on the museum’s website anytime and be sure to watch the video archive of live concerts in the Performance Corner. The National Constitution Center – dedicated to the four most powerful pages in America’s history — hosts weekly podcast episodes and videos that visitors can enjoy from anywhere. Discussions and lessons explore important historical moments like women’s suffrage and the Vietnam War, as well as current U.S.