15 museums to visit online while at home

It's time to be responsible, stay home and carry out other types of activities to stop the spread of the coronavirus. There are plenty of museums available that you can visit online over the next few weeks to learn a little more about the culture.

The most prudent thing right now in the face of the coronavirus situation is to stay at home and go out only when strictly necessary. Now it is time to do new things or resume activities that you had left behind due to lack of time, because you were not at home, etc.

One possibility is to take the opportunity to exercise through different mobile apps, although if you are looking for a little more entertainment for yourself or even for your children, there is also a wide variety of mobile games with which to enjoy these next few days and not get bored.

In this we are going to make the most of our Internet connection and we are going to recommend a series of museum web pages that you can visit onlinein the same way as if you were doing it physically, so make yourself comfortable and be sure to visit any of those options.

Pinacoteca di Brera – Milano

We begin with the Pinacoteca di Brera art collection, located in Milan. Today it is probably one of the most outstanding art collections in all of Italy. Among the creations available, we find works by Raphael and also Caravaggio, among others.

All of his works can be seen onlinethrough his official website, page available in English and Italian. If you want to see the entire collection, just click on the "Collection" tab and you will immediately see all the works with their respective description, title, artist, etc.

Uffizi Gallery

The Galleria degli Uffizi is a museum-palace located in Florence in which a very important detail stands out, right now it offers one of the oldest art collections in the world and is a major tourist attraction in Italy. It can also be visited online.

Unlike the previous one, it allows the possibility of translating the web into Spanish. To access the works, the tab “works of art” is available, which allows you to access all the paintings, architecture, sculpture and the engravings and drawings department.

Musei Vaticani

In the Vatican Museum you can have access to artistic works owned by the Catholic Church. The available gallery has been nourished by the contributions of the popes themselves, the first of which was the private collection of Julius II and since then various popes have been increasing it.

It is divided into several museums, for example, Museo Pío Cristianos, Lapidario Hebrero, Museo Cristiano, Capilla Nicolina, etc.. To access the different collections of these museums you would have to enter the Vatican Museums website/explore/collections/online catalogue.

Archaeological Museum of Athens

The Archaeological Museum of Athens is another one that you cannot miss, but not in person, which you will surely be able to do soon, but rather online form to know the wide catalog of works that it has available, where archaeological objects stand out.

Your page online web is full of works, just enter the "collections" section and see all the great catalog there is. Most of them are objects of great value that have been found in Greece and make up a total of more than 20,000 finds that can be seen.

Prado Museum

We continue with this list of museums to visit from home now that you cannot go out because museums are one of the places that close due to the coronavirus. You cannot fail to visit the Museo del Prado de Madrid through the official website where you can see the works.

In the "collection" section of the website there are almost 6,000 results of all kinds of works available, you only have to enter a little little by little in all the possibilities through the different classification methods available (technique used, author, location, etc.).

Louvre Museum

The Louvre, which will also remain temporarily closed, can also be visited from home by doing what is called a“virtual tour”, which is the possibility of seeing the art collection available in the museum as if you were there in person.

In the tours section on the official Louvre website you can access only 3 tours, in this case, they have the name of “Egyptian Antiquities”, “Remains of the Louvre's Moat” and “Galeria d Apollon. In any case, you will need to use your Firefox browser to view it as you need flash to run the tour.

CAC Malaga

The CAC of Málaga, or also known as the Contemporary Art Center of Málaga is another important facility that you should not miss if you are near. However, it is now closed for security reasons to stop the spread of the coronavirus.

Although it offers a website, you won't be able to find works on it, so you have to look for other means to access them. The best option is “Google Arts & Culture” where you can see different works of urban art, graffiti, etc.

National Archaeological Museum

The National Archaeological Museum offers a wide collection of architectural objects that once belonged to different towns in Spain and cover an important period, from antiquity to more recent times in our history.

On the website there is the possibility of taking an impressive virtual tour of all the rooms in order to enjoy the collections on display (Middle Ages, Modern Ages, Roman Hispania, Canarian Archaeology, Greece, Near East, Egypt and Nubia, etc.). However, we recommend the cultural chronological catalogue

British museum

As its name suggests, the British Museum is a museum located in London, in the United Kingdom. It is one of the ones that receives the most visits every year and offers a wide variety of works from all fields, but not only paintings, but also architectural objects.

On its website you can access the museum's available collection and through which you can take a tour as you wish, so that you will be known, everything is very detailed and, incidentally, you become a little more educated in these days of confinement at home.

Cervantes House Museum

The Casa de Cervantes Museum, like all those in Spain, are completely closed due to the coronavirus. One possibility to visit its collection is to access the online catalog available on the official website in order to find out everything that is inside.

To do this you must enter the web, click on “online catalogue” and finally go browsing through the different sections that you will see, so sit comfortably in front of your computer and see everything that the Casa de Cervantes Museum has to offer now that it will be temporarily closed.

Metropolitan Museum of New York

In Google Arts & Culture we also find a wide variety of works from the Metropolitan Museum of New York. Opened in 1872, it is currently one of the largest art museums in the world, with more than 2 million works from a variety of artists and periods.

On the Google website indicated above you can access museum reports, online exhibitions, baroque collections, vases, engravings, Renaissance works and many more works with their respective artist, title, technique used and other information.

Washington National Gallery of Art

It is an art museum founded in 1937 that has a large number of architectural works and objects, but now you cannot visit it in person until April 4. His most iconic work is Leonardo Da Vinci's Portrait of Geneva de Benci.

It has a web page to access its most important collection, being able to filter by artists or even carry out a search manually in search of some work that you know and in which you are interested. Of course, with each work visited you will obtain information about it.

Seattle Museum of Art

We continue on the other side of the pond and this time we recommend you visit online the Seattle Art Museum, a museum that opened just recently 13 years whose current collection offers a wide variety of works and objects. Of course, it also has an online site to visit.

To see the catalog of works and others, all you have to do is enter the section “collections” and browse through the different cards available, such as “African Art”, “American Art”, Australian Aboriginal Art”, “Asian Art”, “Islamic Art”, “Native American Art”, etc.

Oxford Museum of the History of Science

Unlike other museums, the Oxford Museum of the History of Science houses a large number of objects related to science (telescopes, watches, gadgets, maps, images, books of the time, etc.). It's content unlike what everyone else is offering.

It is located at the English University of Oxford, although it has its own very interesting and attractive online website. To access his collection just enter and click on “collections”, from there you will be able to see the entire extensive and detailed catalog available.

Hermitage Museum of Russia

We continue with more museums to visit online and now we are going to Russia to recommend the Hermitage Museum of RussiaIt is considered one of the most important museums due to the large number of antiquities it has, more specifically, it has more than 3 million.

There are not only paintings and sculptures, but also archaeological pieces, art from the country itself and even jewelry and a variety of weapons To see all It would be enough to visit the collection in Saint Petersburg, but now the online possibility is better and much easier through the web.