Virtual Tours

Leonardo daVinci, "Ginevra de'Benci," oil on panel, 1478 (National Gallery, Washington)

During the pandemic, we're more isolated individually than our species has been for eons. We're stuck indoors or in small groups. In some parts of the country the weather is still keeping many of us indoors. We're cooped up. And even if we weren't many museums and other possible diversions during these times are also padlocked.

Edward Hopper, "New York Movie," oil on canvas, 1939 (MoMA, New York City)

What can a museum rat like me do in these times? Luckily there are vast online resources. If you're interested in art, you can review the collection of many of the best and biggest in the world by searching the Internet. A few museums have only limited parts of the collection online but many include everything. Some offer virtual tours of the museum, allowing you to wander through parts of the collection as if you're actually visiting.

And as a salute to happier times ahead, here's a sidwalk gathering at a microbrewery in Iowa.

Hoff, "Outside the Brewpub," oil on panel, 2018

Chicago Art Institute Collection
The Getty
Metropolitan Museum 360 Project (New York)
Musee d'Orsay Virtual Tour 
National Gallery of Art (Washington)
Rijksmuseum Virtual Tour
Uffizi Gallery Florence
VanGogh Museum 
Virtual Vatican