From the Louvre to the Chersonese: 13 most interesting museums in the world online
Quarantine gave us not only limitations, but also opportunities. For example, see the most famous collections and expositions of the world for free. It is easy to do – there are many online broadcasts from museums. We tell you which ones to pay attention to.
Foreign
Louvre
The Louvre tops the list of the most visited museums. Once home to French monarchs, the building now houses more than 350,000 works of art, including a world collection of paintings led by da Vinci’s Mona Lisa.
To get to the museum online, you need to go to the archive on the Louvre website. www.louvre.fr.“Collection & Louvre Palace” Here you can find exhibits by the author, name and even technique of execution. Not all rooms are available for viewing. The museum also has a virtual tour. https://petitegalerie.louvre.fr/visite-virtuelle/saison5.
British National Gallery
If you are interested in Western European painting, you will not find a better collection than in this gallery. To date, more than 2,000 paintings from the XIII to the XX century have been collected here. The collection contains paintings by Titian, Rubens, and Turner.
You can see the collection on the gallery website.https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/ In the virtual tour section. They are placed directly on the main page. A closer look at the pictures will help the library of images.
British Museum
Remember the historical and archaeological museum from the movie Night at the Museum? He also has an online collection. And the largest – more than 3.5 million exhibits. All of them can be seen on the website. https://www.britishmuseum.org/in the "Collection" section. For convenience, a search is organized in dozens of categories.
The museum was originally conceived as a collection of antiquities of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, so here is the largest collection of mummies and sarcophagi, the famous Rosetta Stone, moai from Easter Island, the world's oldest printed book and much more.
On the channel. https://www.youtube.com/user/britishmuseumeducational videos from the curators of the exposition, where they talk about some of the exhibits of the museum.
National Museum of Natural History in Washington
There is a similar museum of history and science in Washington. It contains more than a hundred million samples of plants, animals, fossils, minerals, rocks, meteorites, as well as archaeological and cultural artifacts. Here you can see dinosaurs and the most famous gem of the New World – the Hope Diamond. Online tour of the museum you will find on the website in the section "Virtual Tour" https://naturalhistory.si.edu
prado
Moving to Madrid, the National Museum of Painting and Sculpture. The exposition is collected from royal and church collections. The museum contains works by Bosch, Velázquez, Goya, Murillo and El Greco. There are also paintings by Raphael, Titian and Caravaggio.
On the website in the "Colleccion" section https://www.museodelprado.es/Photos of more than 11 thousand paintings were exhibited. You can search for works by the name of the artist or on a specific topic, for example, saints, royal portraits, mythological gods, etc.
Van Gogh Museum
Amsterdam has the largest collection of works by Vincent Van Gogh. The main exhibition will tell about the life and work of the artist. The collection includes many famous paintings, such as “Bedroom in Arles” and one of the three versions of the painting “Sunflowers”.
In addition to the works of Van Gogh, the museum contains paintings by his contemporaries: Paul Gauguin, Georges Seurat, Claude Monet and others.
On the websitehttps://vangoghmuseum.nl/enThere is an online archive where all the masterpieces are collected, as well as explanatory videos.
The museum also has a high-resolution video tour on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmh8ObfC7uNs-wSSR2KoFsg
Museum of Modern Art
If antiquities don’t impress you, welcome to New York. MoMA is called the best museum in the world. It is six floors completely filled with masterpieces of art. His collection also includes works by Impressionists and Surrealists such as Picasso and Monet.
On the website https://www.moma.org/68,000 works were exhibited. The Museum of Contemporary Art also offers online art history courses. They are now available to all who wish.
Galileo Museum
The place where everything turns and turns. The museum is dedicated not only to the life and work of physicist Galileo Galilei, but also to science in general. The exhibits are taken from the private collections of the two great Florentine dynasties of the Medici and Lorraines. Here you can see how things that are familiar to us have evolved, for example, telescopes, medical instruments, globes and so on.
Of course, the main reason to visit the museum is Galileo’s personal belongings. So, there are two telescopes and a lens, with which the scientist discovered the moons of Jupiter.
You can visit the museum online through a virtual tour. https://catalogue.museogalileo.it/index.htmlor through an online directory on the site https://www.museogalileo.it/en/
Russian
Hermitage
The pearl of Russia and the largest art, cultural and historical museum in the world. It was originally a private collection by Catherine II. The exposition includes about three million works of art and monuments of world culture, from the Stone Age to the end of the XX century.
The main exhibition occupies five buildings. They say to see everything, you need to go to the Hermitage daily for several years. Therefore, we recommend to inspect the collections now. And notice, no queues at the entrance!
The Hermitage is one of the best virtual museums with online excursions. In addition to the site with tours throughout the building n https://hermitagemuseum.orgThere's a five-hour movie shot on an iPhone. The film shows a journey through the Hermitage of a man meditatively considering works of art. The video is available on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= MU73rsL9qE
If you do not want to walk around the Hermitage alone, check out their YouTube channel. https://www.youtube.com/user/thehermitagemuseum. Museum employees in online broadcasts talk about the work of the Hermitage, restoration works and conduct excursions to the expositions.
Tretyakov Gallery
Pavel Tretyakov was an avid collector of Russian art, thanks to which we can see 180,000 exhibits in one place, including paintings, sculptures and precious metal products created from the XI to the XX century.
Following the example of the Hermitage, the staff of the Tretyakov took up the creation of virtual excursions. On the gallery’s website in the “Exhibitions” section you will find online games, virtual panoramas of expositions and even painting lessons from some famous artists such as Kuindzhi and Serov.
And on their YouTube channel. https://www.youtube.com/user/stgThere are regular online tours to different rooms. There are also lectures and documentaries. You can find the video using the hashtag #thirdyakovkadom.
A.S. Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts
The museum is dedicated to foreign art and consists of more than 700,000 items. It contains a collection of casts from ancient statues, works of art, archaeological finds, as well as a collection of objects from Ancient Egypt and Ancient Rome.
Virtual tour of the museum can be found on the website of the institution https://pushkinmuseum.art. Museum staff also conduct live broadcasts, where they show and talk about the exhibits. The schedule of excursions is posted on the main page of their website. Here in the "Media" section there are online games, audio materials and a lot of interesting things.
The Pushkin Museum has an educational project Pushkin Academy dedicated to world culture. The project includes free educational marathons with chat support of experts. If you did not have time to join the marathon, all the lectures of the past courses are available in the "Science and Education" section.
Sevastopol Museum-Reserve "Chersonesus Tauride"
Khersoneska Reserve is a large research and museum institution. The museum collection has more than 214,000 exhibits. While Crimea is closed to tourists, you can watch the online panorama of the exposition, including the famous stele, on which the oath of citizens of Chersonesos is carved.
The panorama is available on the website "Virtual Sevastopol". http://virtual-sevastopol.ru/chersones-muzei.html. In the social networks of the museum posted a small video, where the staff of the institution show the territory of the complex https://vk.com/chersonesos sev.
State Russian Museum
This museum houses the largest collection of Russian art. As in the Hermitage, the exposition is located in five buildings. Here you can find works of painting, graphics, sculpture, decorative, applied and folk art.
The employees of the museum thoroughly prepared for the regime of self-isolation. The entire collection of the complex can be found on the website "Virtual Russian Museum" https://rusmuseumvrm.ru/. On their YouTube channel. https://www.youtube.com/user/RMVBDepartment/featuredPost various video lectures and recordings of creative meetings. The museum also broadcasts online. Read the schedule and find links to the video on the site http://rusmuseum.ru/news/online-broadcast-of-the-Russian-museum/social media https://vk.com/rusmuseum.
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