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12 famous museums offering virtual tours
https://hellogiggles.com/news/museums-with-virtual-tours/
Google Arts & Culture’s collection includes the British Museum in London, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, the Guggenheim in New York City, and literally hundreds of more places where you can gain knowledge about art, history, and science.
This collection is especially good for students who are looking for ways to stay on top of their studies if schools are closed.

Google Expeditions
https://edu.google.com/products/vr-ar/expeditions/
Google Expeditions
Field trips are a great way for teachers to engage students and give them a first hand understanding of a subject — but they're not always practical or even possible.
Expeditions allows teachers to make their curriculum come alive by taking their students on field trips to almost anywhere they can imagine. Around the globe, on the surface of Mars, on a dive to coral reefs or back in time — abstract concepts come to life in Expeditions, giving students a deeper understanding of the world beyond the classroom.

Google Cardboard
https://arvr.google.com/cardboard/
Google Cardboard
Experience virtual reality in a simple, fun, and affordable way.
Get it, fold it and look inside to enter the world of Cardboard. It’s a VR experience starting with a simple viewer anyone can build or buy. Once you have it, you can explore a variety of apps that unfold all around you.

Smithsonian : Panoramic Virtual Tour
https://naturalhistory.si.edu/about/virtual-tour
This comprehensive virtual tour allows visitors using a desktop computer (Windows, Mac, Linux) or a mobile device (iPhone, iPad, Android) to take a virtual, self-guided, room-by-room walking tour of the whole museum.

Wikipedia : Virtual museum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_museum
Wikipedia : Virtual museum
A virtual museum is a museum that exists only online. A virtual museum is also known as an online museum, electronic museum, hypermuseum, digital museum, cybermuseum or Web museum.[citation needed]
The term used depends upon the backgrounds of the practitioners and researchers working in this field.

Virtual Museum of Canada
http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/
Virtual Museum of Canada
The Virtual Museum of Canada (VMC) showcases a rich collection of Canadian heritage online.
The VMC celebrates stories and treasures entrusted to Canadian museums and shares them in innovative and dynamic ways.
Launched in March 2001, the VMC has gained much national and international attention. Visitors from home and abroad have made more than 34 million visits to the VMC's virtual exhibits, images, interactive resources and other attractions.

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Museums online : The Google Art Project
https://artsandculture.google.com/partner
Museums online : The Google Art Project
VERY Comprehensive collection

5 Ways Museums Are Reaching Digital Audiences
https://mashable.com/2011/08/11/museums-digital/
5 Ways Museums Are Reaching Digital Audiences
New platforms are allowing museums to break free of the confines of the academic ivory tower and engage with their communities like never before.

Visit These 5 (Virtual) Museums
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/visit-5-virtual-museums-leaving-home/
Visit These 5 (Virtual) Museums Without Leaving Home
| Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History | European Virtual Museum | Louvre | Vatican Museums | Toyota Automobile Museum |

Web Exhibits: interactive museum
http://www.webexhibits.org/
Web Exhibits: interactive museum of science, humanities and culture.
For each exhibit, we’ve drawn upon the knowledge of experts in the field to create both a broad overview and detailed information about the topic.
We hope that the exhibits’ information, virtual experiments, and hands-on activities promote learning, prompting you to think, to formulate questions, and to explore topics from a variety of angles.

Create Your Own Virtual Exhibit
http://objectofhistory.org/
Create Your Own Virtual Exhibit

International Arcade Museum
https://www.arcade-museum.com/
International Arcade Museum
... the world's largest museum of the art, inventions, and history of the amusement and coin-operated machine industries.

Museums of the World
http://www.museumstuff.com/
Museums of the World -- this website can help you find .. museums online .. a staggering variety of .. educational links .. scads of interactive .. virtual exhibits .. dozens of interesting .. museum shops .. specialized content for .. museum professionals .. pages devoted to .. museum jobs .. online since 1999, we now have a database of 1,000s of individual resources related to museums

Asian art at the Metropolitan Museum
https://www.metmuseum.org/
The collection of Asian art at the Metropolitan Museum is the largest and most comprehensive in the West. Each of the many civilizations of Asia is represented by outstanding works that provide?n both quality and breadth?n unrivaled experience of the artistic traditions of nearly half the world.
The collection of more than 60,000 objects, which range in date from the second millennium B.C. to the early twentieth century, includes paintings, prints, calligraphy, sculptures, metalwork, ceramics, lacquers, works of decorative art, and textiles from East Asia, South Asia, the Himalayan kingdoms, and Southeast Asia.

The Odessa museum of western and eastern art.
http://www.oweamuseum.odessa.ua/
The Odessa museum of western and eastern art.
More than 5000 images: WEST EUROPEAN 16-20c (painting, decorative art); ANTIQUE ART (Antique ceramics, Roman glass); ORIENTAL ART (Japan, China, India, Tibet, Iran); EXHIBITIONS - modern artists

Fashion and Textile Museum
https://www.ftmlondon.org/
Fashion and Textile Museum - FTM is the first exhibition space in London solely dedicated to recognizing and celebrating the achievements of this global industry. Situated in the culturally thriving South Bank, FTM aims to hold two to three major exhibitions per year, manage an innovative education and outreach programme and host an extensive digital fashion and textile archive.
Education is central to the Fashion and Textile Museum's mission. We aim to support learners, whatever the age and whatever their previous experience or knowledge.

MuseumKids - the Metropolitan Museum's Web site - ART
https://www.metmuseum.org/learn/kids-and-families
Welcome to MuseumKids - the Metropolitan Museum's Web site,
Here you can plan a visit to the Museum with your family and discover works of art in our online features
For an overview of the resources available for teachers, see Teacher Resources. For an overview of programs for teachers, see Teacher Programs. Consult the online calendar for a list of teacher programs organized by date. The Explore & Learn section of the Museum's Web site also contains a wealth of information suitable for the classroom.

Virtual Library Museums
https://icom.museum/en/
... a distributed directory of on-line museums

Museum of Ancient Sites
http://www.ancientworlds.net/
For the history student .... once you register (free) and become a member you can visit ... Acncient Rome, Greece, Egypt, Babylon, Nieuw Amsterdam, Machu Picchu and Tara (a Celtic Town).