> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://hyperallergic.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # 2,500 Museums You Can Now Visit Virtually - URL: https://hyperallergic.com/2500-virtual-museum-tours-google-arts-culture/ - Published: 2020-03-16T21:56:59.000Z - Updated: 2025-11-24T15:52:27.000Z - Description: If you’re feeling hungry for art while you’re stranded at home, here are our 12 selections out of 2,500 world-class museums and galleries that are now offering virtual tours and online collections. - Author: Hakim Bishara - Tags: News, coronavirus, COVID-19, Google, Museums, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:41 (2019, 2020, part 2) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2020/03/45005996815_d784be17f1_o.jpg) Inside the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam (Tomasz Baranowski/Flickr) There’s no point in sugarcoating it — things are bad and they’re about to get worse before they get any better. COVID-19 virus has brought the world to a halt, [shuttering all art and cultural institutions](https://hyperallergic.com/coronavirus-daily-report/) in affected countries, and putting millions worldwide in quarantine, self-imposed or not. Meanwhile, if you’re feeling hungry for art while you’re stranded at home, you might be pleased to know that 2,500 world-class museums and galleries are now offering virtual tours and online collections on Google’s [Arts & Culture](https://artsandculture.google.com/partner?hl=en&ref=hyperallergic.com) pages. (And for opera fans, the Metropolitan Opera in New York City is [streaming concerts for free](https://www.metopera.org/about/press-releases/met-to-launch-nightly-met-opera-streams-a-free-series-of-encore-live-in-hd-presentations-streamed-on-the-company-website-during-the-coronavirus-closure/?ref=hyperallergic.com).) Google Arts & Culture’s collection includes many of the world’s biggest museums: Tate Modern and the British Museum in London, the Van Gogh Museum and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, and the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum in NYC, among hundreds of others. In most, you can browse through entire exhibitions online, and in many, you can also walk through the museum using [Google’s street view](https://artsandculture.google.com/story/igKSKBBnEBSGKg?hl=en&ref=hyperallergic.com). Here are 12 museums that you can visit virtually right now: ## Guggenheim Museum, New York See online exhibitions like *But a Storm Is Blowing From Paradise: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa* and *The Little-Known Glass Works of Josef Albers* [here](https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/solomon-r-guggenheim-museum?hl=en&ref=hyperallergic.com) and virtually tour the building [here](https://artsandculture.google.com/streetview/solomon-r-guggenheim-museum-interior-streetview/jAHfbv3JGM2KaQ?hl=en&sv%5Flng=-73.95902634325634&sv%5Flat=40.78285751667664&sv%5Fh=30.75703204567916&sv%5Fp=0.06928383072430222&sv%5Fpid=MfnUmHRyOSzMtY3vtYU05g&sv%5Fz=0.9645743015259166&ref=hyperallergic.com) (you’d save yourself $25). ## British Museum, London Tour the museum’s Great Court and discover the ancient Rosetta Stone [here](https://britishmuseum.withgoogle.com/object/olduvai-stone-chopping-tool?ref=hyperallergic.com). ## Musée d’Orsay, Paris Get a close look at the works of Monet, Cézanne, Gauguin, and hundreds of other French painters [here](https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/musee-dorsay-paris?hl=en&ref=hyperallergic.com). ## Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Walk among Vermeer, Rembrandt, and many more masters from the Dutch Golden Age [here](https://artsandculture.google.com/streetview/rijksmuseum/iwH5aYGoPwSf7g?hl=en&sv%5Flng=4.885283712508563&sv%5Flat=52.35984312584405&sv%5Fh=311.1699875145569&sv%5Fp=-5.924133903625474&sv%5Fpid=fOVcUXQW2wpRf33iUmxEfg&sv%5Fz=0.9999999999999997&ref=hyperallergic.com). ## Pergamon Museum, Berlin The Pergamon is one of Germany’s largest museums and it’s home for the Ishtar Gate of Babylon and the Greek Pergamon Altar. Visit it [here](https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/pergamon/m05tcm?hl=en&ref=hyperallergic.com). ## National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul Catch up on the best of contemporary art from Korea [here](https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/national-museum-of-modern-and-contemporary-art-korea?hl=en&ref=hyperallergic.com). ## National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Explore an exhibition of American fashion from 1740 to 1895 and a collection of Vermeer paintings [here](https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/national-gallery-of-art-washington-dc?hl=en&ref=hyperallergic.com). ## Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam Here is where you can find the [largest collection of artworks](https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/van-gogh-museum?hl=en&ref=hyperallergic.com) by van Gogh, including more than 200 paintings, 500 drawings, and over 750 personal letters. ## Louvre, Paris The Louvre doesn’t need Google to create online tours for itself. It has [its own virtual tours](https://www.louvre.fr/en/visites-en-ligne?ref=hyperallergic.com), thank you very much. ## MASP, São Paulo The Museu de Arte de São Paulo is Brazil’s first modern art museum. Do visit it [here](https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/masp?hl=en&ref=hyperallergic.com). ## The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles Travel back in time to the 8th century with [this collection](https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/the-j-paul-getty-museum?hl=en&ref=hyperallergic.com) of European paintings, drawings, sculpture, illuminated manuscripts, decorative arts, and European, Asian, and American photographs. ## Uffizi Gallery, Florence Italy was hit hardest by the virus in Europe. Show some solidarity and pay this magnificent gallery [a visit](https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/uffizi-gallery?hl=en&ref=hyperallergic.com). And, finally, enjoy this short walkthrough of the 2019 exhibition [*No Wrong Holes: Thirty Years of Nayland Blake* ](https://hyperallergic.com/nayland-blake-no-wrong-holes-ica-la/)at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (ICA LA), courtesy the artist themself. > If you're stuck at home and looking to visit a virtual museum, here's a quick lo-fi walkthrough of my retrospective No Wrong Holes: [https://t.co/4zmoS3M06E](https://t.co/4zmoS3M06E?ref=hyperallergic.com) via [@YouTube](https://twitter.com/YouTube?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=hyperallergic.com) > > — Nayland Blake (@naylandblake) [March 15, 2020](https://twitter.com/naylandblake/status/1239313875377455104?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=hyperallergic.com)