How virtual tours of museums are conducted, and why such a service is needed.

Many people would like to regularly visit interesting sites and galleries, but not everyone has enough time and opportunities for this (especially when it comes to museums in another country or city).

Online excursions come to the rescue, which allow you to get acquainted with the exhibits without leaving.

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The essence of the concept

Usually similar ones are presented on the main site of a museum or gallery, and are technically implemented in the form.

It consists of many panoramas by analogy with other similar services. You can “move around” using the arrows on the screen, and thus inspect all the available rooms.

Advice: The format of the design may differ slightly for different establishments. But, often, it is quite simple, and the control of "movement" quickly becomes intuitive. Usually, there are arrows on the screen, which indicate the possible directions of movement.

They are created by developers on the initiative of the owners. They allow you to get acquainted with exhibitions and collections, and can also stimulate the viewer's interest in a real visit.

Louvre

You can take a tour of some of the louvre halls by going here. Not all exhibits are presented on the site, and there are no temporary exhibitions and expositions. But you can visit the following:

• Egyptian Archeology;
• Medieval Louvre (dedicated to the legacy of the time when the building was the palace of the French kings);
• Apollo Gallery.

To view the hall, you need to select the one you are interested in on the page opened by the link.

Under its description, click on the Launch Virtual Tour button, and in the window that opens, move the cursor over the exhibits, click on them.

Below the main window there is a field with a description, and a map on which you can select exhibitions of interest.

In order to take an online tour of the Hermitage, you must follow the link. The application was created on the same engine as the one, therefore it is quite convenient and familiar to use it.

The window can be expanded to full screen.

The tour starts in the central gallery, in order to "go" to the neighboring ones, left-click on the image of the doors.

There is a compass icon in the lower right corner of the main tour window. With it, you can change the direction of the camera by moving it left and right.

Next to the compass there are buttons with numbers 0 and 1 - they indicate the floors of the palace-museum.

It is in many ways similar to Tretyakovskaya. Works of art belonging to a private collector are also on display here.

There is virtual access to almost all premises. On the main page of the site, which is opened by the link, there is a layout of the premises. Choose what you want and click on it.

An online panorama of the selected room will open in a new window. You can control the movements of the camera in the standard way - by moving the mouse while holding the left key.

Also at the bottom of the screen there is a menu for controlling movement using buttons.

In the upper right corner of the screen there is a field, when you click on it, a full list of rooms available for inspection opens. In it, you can select the one you are interested in.

Undoubtedly, virtual travel cannot and should not replace real travel with all their range of vivid sensations and impressions. But they help us to see any corner of the earth for free, even if you yourself will never be able to visit it. In addition, it is a very convenient way to get a lot of useful information in advance and plan your future travels.

You can fly in the stratosphere over the entire planet or over the rooftops of Paris and St. Petersburg, look into the halls of the British Museum or the Kremlin treasury, find yourself among the mountains and waterfalls of Iceland or in the amazing underwater world on the Galapagos Islands ... Stop dreaming, there are no more obstacles in front of you!

1. Panoramas 360cities.net

Just as poets describe the world with poetry, artists with paintings, composers with music, so 360cities.net describes the world with picturesque panoramas.

Here are collected tens of thousands of photographs from all over the world, and not only ours - there are even panoramas of other planets from one interesting rover. Here you will enjoy traveling virtually through the capital of Nepal, Kathmandu, or exploring the panorama of London, which was captured in such a high resolution that you can see the faces of people in the windows of houses.

2. Google photo tours

Of course, the ability to view streets on Google StreetView maps has long been a surprise. But not everyone, perhaps, knows that the participants in this project are still fond of creating photo tours and whole virtual travels.

These photo tours provide an opportunity to take a walk near Taj Mahal, view Dubai from the world's tallest 800-meter skyscraper Burj Khalifa, for the whole of Paris from one of three observation decks Eiffel tower or travel to Mexico on the pyramids Chichen Itza... There are also unusual trips, for example, descending into a salt mine similar to an underground palace in Wieliczka (Poland) or diving into the real underwater world in dozens of different places, for example, at Galapagos Islands.

To travel around Russia, take a look at RusMap.net (Google services are used) - this is an understandable and accessible service for those who often travel on business trips, like to travel, or are just about to hit the road. Regardless of the goal, Rusmap will make your trip as pleasant and comfortable as possible.

The "panorama" option allows you to take a virtual walk through the cities of Russia. Perhaps such an Internet journey will be the impetus to take a real one.

3. Google street view app

When traveling, I use the Street View application a lot. It is available for Android and iPhone. The application allows you to view many panoramas located on the world map.

There are also panoramas of users and panoramas of Google itself. The service is developing rapidly and the number of panoramas is increasing before our eyes.

I myself have observed the fascinating process of creating a panorama on special equipment. But each of you will be able to add your own panoramas using your smartphone and obeying the commands of the application.

4. Yandex panoramas

Yandex is also actively developing its cartographic service, and on its maps you can look at the cities of Russia and the world from a bird's eye view. For example, fly over Palace Square in St. Petersburg or over the Assumption Cathedral in Vladimir.

Yandex maps are, perhaps, more visual than Google, there is a panorama and map view mode at the same time.

5. Air Pano

The stunning project of another Russian team, Air Pano, is a rare occasion when professional enthusiasts create products at a level that was previously only controlled by wealthy Internet corporations. Spherical aerial panoramas, or rather entire air tours of Air Pano, in terms of the beauty and quality of the footage, will easily give odds to both Google and Yandex.

Filming is conducted from literally everything that can fly: from planes and balloons to airships and radio-controlled drones. Now the site has about 2000 panoramas from the most picturesque corners of the world. Here you can visit the island of Java on the Bromo volcano or see the Kremlin from the air from different angles, admire the northern lights in Iceland or admire one of the Hawaiian islands, visit the Jordanian Petra and even look inside the famous Treasury.

In addition, when viewing a panorama, you can switch to another camera by simply clicking on the helicopter symbol.

The panoramas are not only colorful, but also informative. Many are labeled with the names of the visible objects.

6. Youtube 360 ​​video files

Even more immersive and fully immersive 360-degree video. You can easily look right or left, for example by sailing past palaces in a boat in Venice.

You can search for 360-degree videos on Youtube, but you can also search on Air Pano.

7. Video travel on Vimeo

You will be surprised what miracles a good photographer can do with timelaps (slow motion). It's a great way to show even familiar places in a whole new light and inspire travel.

Excellent selections of these videos are collected at vimeo.com. Hundreds of videos allow you to visit the most beautiful places on the planet. You can admire the golden pagodas of mysterious Myanmar, the northern beauty of Norwegian sunsets, romantic views of the famous Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, or other stunning shots from around the world.

Another global Google project is dedicated to art. It is called that: Art Project. The modest name hides an incredible exposition - tens of thousands of paintings from the best museums in the world. Moreover, each shot in such a high resolution that you can, for example, examine in detail each smear of Van Gogh's "Starry Night" or look into the eyes of the boyar Morozova Surikov.

Many museums have kindly allowed to shoot not only their expositions, but also their premises. And now you can, without getting up from your chair, stroll through the halls of the Hermitage or the Doge's Palace in Venice, or visit the Museum of the Athenian Acropolis.

If you are a creative person, then such virtual excursions will save you time and money, and you will receive no less aesthetic pleasure from works of art.

9. Webcam on the ISS

Are you fascinated by the unknown expanses of the Universe? Then watch live broadcasts from the webcam on the International Space Station. You will have the feeling that the camera is somewhere very close, and not 400 km from the surface of the planet.

The image slowly but surely changes throughout the day and you can personally see that our blue planet is in perfect order. However, it should be noted that the video is available only when there is a signal from the Earth, otherwise you will only see the splash screen. Sometimes the video shows the life of astronauts and their spacewalks.

P.S. Did you like walking around the world virtually? Will such virtual excursions help you prepare for visiting some interesting places in real travel? Are there any video panoramas in your collection that will take your breath away? Share with us in the comments to this article your impressions and findings ...

Also, don't forget to tell your friends about this new opportunity to explore the world.

Google's Cultural Institute is a prime example of a modern virtual museum. Started in 2011 as a project dedicated exclusively to art museums, the resource now includes a section on history as well as some of the most amazing places on the planet. In addition to viewing high-resolution pictures, the site offers a virtual tour with a spectacular interface and audio guide. Here you can find sites such as the galleryTate in London, galleryUffizi , Metropolitan Museum in NYC, Uzey Orsay in Paris, Royal Museum in Amsterdam and others. Recently Google digitized the last Venice Biennale of Contemporary Art. A project about street art from all over the world deserves special attention Street Art.

Guggenheim Museum

But most famous museums today consider it necessary to form a virtual collection on the network, once again confirming their ownership of masterpieces and distributing high-quality reproductions of their paintings. In particular, the Guggenheim Museum has created an online collection with a convenient rubric by name and direction, thus uniting the collections of all four cities where the museum is located, and other projects of the Guggenheim Foundation. The virtual museum includes many options: among other things, it is an informative site with lectures and videos on various topics.

Virtual tours of the Parisian Louvre

The Louvre is not represented in the Google cultural project (which was discussed above), it prefers to develop its own online platform. On its website, the museum allows you to walk through several halls. The foot of the walls of the royal palace on the first floor of the museum, a hall with relics of antiquity and Ancient Egypt can be seen in the form of a virtual panorama.

Oxford Museum of History and Science

On the website of one of the world's most famous science museums, you can see photographs and panoramas of expositions. All this is part of one big virtual tour of Oxford ... One of the notable exhibits of the virtual museum is the blackboard on which Einstein wrote during his famous lecture at the university in 1931. A whole nostalgic project has been created on the museum's website Goodbye board! " , which was attended by British celebrities like Brian Eno and Robert May. It turned out nice.

George Washington Virtual Museum Mount Vernon

Free walk through the cradle of American democracy - the Mount Vernon Museum of George Washington. The place where the first president of America worked and lived was digitized by the creators of the museum with incredible care. A detailed online tour with photos, information blocks, an audio guide in English is also supported by a video with actors in costumes from the late 18th century. Everything to immerse yourself in the atmosphere of a historical place.

Virtual Museum of Things Thngs.co

The young project, which has already won recognition among IT industry specialists and ordinary users, will appeal to those who are interested in the history of things and are inclined to create their own collections. The authors themselves call their site Facebook for things. Each item or category of items has its own timeline, where you can track the evolution of the object in a historical perspective. The viewer is offered only the facts: year, place and appearance. The focus on objectivity and simplicity sets this project apart from others. To verify this will help, in particular, compilation items of the Soviet heritage. The project was launched recently, but it promises to develop and grow rapidly.

Europeana project

Rather, it is an encyclopedic project, but due to the emphasis on visual culture, it is quite drawn to the title of a museum. The resource allows the user to go on a real virtual tour of the subject that interests him, be it bicycles of the early 20th century, antique vases or postcards with views of St. Petersburg. You just need to enter data, era - and the resource will give you a list of images, texts, videos and soundtracks to help make the perception of the subject as voluminous and complete as possible.

World digital library

Similar to Europeana, but already Russified, the World Digital Library project can also provide useful facts and images on any topic. The site is aesthetic and easy to use, so you can get stuck for a long time studying the legislation of the times of Kievan Rus or the chronicle of the 1947 US baseball championship out of simple curiosity.

National Museum of Natural History in Washington DC

The American National Museum of Natural History allows you to walk through the halls, examine in detail the fossils of ancient creatures, collections of insects and birds, and even Egyptian mummies on display. In short, completely immerse yourself in the history of natural history, even if you don't have the opportunity to visit the museum in real life. The site also has a large section with interactive materials and videos on topics.

NASA Museum

Space fans cannot pass by a virtual project dedicated to the history of the world famous US space agency. The launch of the resource was timed to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the organization in 2008. In addition to the successes of American astronautics, the technical details of spacecraft and the launch of spacecraft are quite clearly shown here, and a good-natured robot will guide you on what to click next.

Art is always inspiring. It reminds of the diversity of the world and its beauty. It is a pity that we often do not have enough time and money for museums, where masterpieces of past centuries are expected. How to visit the most famous museums in the world without queues and tickets? How to visit the Louvre, Prado and the Hermitage in one weekend?

How to catch an excursion to get a good look at the skull of a Neanderthal man or a painting on an ancient Greek vase? How to show your child paintings by famous artists? The answer to all questions is the same - to go on a virtual tour. Incredible Google art project, offers such tours to the best museums.

Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh

One of the most famous and visited museums in the world. In it you can see not only the works of our time, but also the originals of "Starry Night" by Vincent Van Gogh and "Hope II" by Gustav Klimt. The virtual tour offers unusual exhibits of our time: original costumes, photographs, posters, sculptures and psychogeographic paintings by Mark Bradford.

Hans Holbein "Ambassadors"

You can definitely spend the whole day here! The museum contains paintings from the 13th to the 20th centuries. We recommend appreciating "Madonna of the Rocks" by Leonardo da Vinci, "Venus and Mars" by Sandro Botticelli and "Allegory of Prudence" by Titian. These and other masterpieces are available in a virtual exhibition.

"At the Conservatory" Edouard Manet

The German Museum contains paintings of the 19th century in the style of classicism, romanticism, impressionism and early modernism. Of particular note are the paintings by Edouard Manet "At the Conservatory", Gustave Courbet's "Wave" and Caspar David Friedrich "Monk by the Sea". You can walk around the entire museum complex. True, some of the paintings were left without signatures.

"Battle of Aboukir" by Antoine-Jean Gros

A place where everyone will feel the royal grandeur. With the help of the Art Project, one can not only look at the famous paintings (The Death of Marat by Jacques Louis David, The Meeting of Eleazar with Rebekah by Paolo Veronese, Hercules Supports the Victory by Jean Jouvenet), but also track how one of the most luxurious palaces changed in stories. The virtual tour also offers a walk through the realistic park.

"Girl with Peaches" Valentin Serov

Art lovers will not find a more complete collection of works by artists from Russia than here. Our favorites are The Black Sea by Ivan Aivazovsky, The Emerald Necklace by Viktor Borisov-Musatov, The Lady in Blue by Konstantin Somov and The Girl with Peaches by Valentin Serov.

"Hungarian Gypsy" Amrita Sher-Gil

Want to know more about Indian art? Then choose this museum. Pictures will help you get to know a completely different culture. The museum displays not only the works of Indian artists, but also paintings by Europeans that were created in India. It is worth paying attention to Amrita Sher-Gil, who is often compared to Frida Kahlo.

"The Birth of Venus" by Sandro Botticelli

The most visited museum in Italy. It seems that Sandro Botticelli's "The Birth of Venus" can be watched for hours! Also in the Uffizi you can see "The Adoration of the Magi" and "Annunciation" by Leonardo da Vinci, "Flora" by Titian, "Musical Angel" by Rosso Fiorentino and other famous canvases.

"Van Gogh paints sunflowers" Paul Gauguin

The number one place for all admirers of the work of the Dutch post-impressionist. By the way, the museum in Amsterdam will offer to look not only at the paintings of Vincent Van Gogh ("Sunflowers", "The Potato Eaters", "The Bedroom in Arles"), but also at the works of his talented contemporaries (for example, Pablo Picasso and Paul Gauguin).

"Guernica" by Pablo Picasso

Not only an incredible art museum, but also a great library. We advise you to evaluate the works of the avant-garde artist Juan Gris ("Anis del Mono Bottle", "Open Window", "Violin and Guitar"). The main exhibit of the museum is "Guernica" by Pablo Picasso.

A museum that will tell you almost everything about British art. Here are collected works from 1500 to the present day. We love to drop by to see again Ophelia by John Everett Millais, Nocturne by James Whistler and Blizzard by William Turner.

The Chapel of Sainte-Chapelle is not really a museum, but one of the most famous and amazing monuments of Gothic architecture. Its incredibly beautiful stained glass windows tell the story of mankind: a total of 1,113 scenes are depicted here. Surprisingly, many of the stained glass windows that can be seen in Sainte-Chapelle today have survived from the 13th century, even surviving the French Revolution (while many of the Christian relics kept in the chapel were destroyed). An online tour allows you to get an idea of ​​the beauty of this place, however, if you want to take a closer look at the stained glass windows, it is better to visit the chapel in person.

As part of a virtual tour, you can visit only a few rooms of the main historical and archaeological museum of Britain - those located on its first floor. But many exhibits can be viewed in large format. The collection of graphics and prints by Michelangelo deserves special attention here.

This is the number one place for all admirers of the work of the surrealist artist Salvador Dali. A virtual tour is available on the museum's website. You can only walk through some exhibition halls, but don't be in a hurry to get upset: the virtual exhibition features such famous works by Dali as "The Room with the Face of Mae West" and "Rainy Taxi".

An incredible renaissance monument. Botticelli, Perugino, Ghirlandaio worked on the frescoes that adorn the walls of the chapel. The truly legendary fresco "The Last Judgment" by Michelangelo. Usually in the Sistine Chapel there are a lot of people, and it is rather difficult to see all the amazing paintings. Therefore, a virtual tour is a real salvation. Enjoy!

A museum dedicated to the great writer is worth a visit for everyone! Walking around the "bad apartment" No. 50 (according to the plot of "The Master and Margarita", Woland lived in it) is possible virtually as well. You will have a chance to look into Bulgakov's office, visit the living room, see the exposition "communal kitchen". The exhibits presented in the museum are digitized, so that they can be examined slowly and in detail.

Tells almost everything about contemporary art. The museum is known not only for its exposition, but also for its unusual building in the form of an inverted tower. Visitors first climb to the top floor, then spiral around the exhibition and descend. Thanks to the online tour, everyone has the opportunity to repeat the route! In addition, the exhibits presented in the virtual collection can be carefully discerned in every detail.

Of course, virtual museums are not a substitute for real excursions. But such Internet outings, and even if together with a child, will help you better understand him and plan a family vacation program. Have a pleasant and informative pastime!

Virtual tours of the best museums

How you want cultural life! .. Only something is always interfering. And there is no money for a trip to Italy. And time - even a trip to the Tretyakov Gallery. And the children sit in a row at the tablets. We ask: what are the leaps and bounds of technology for you? There is a great way to experience the beauty without taking anything strategically important from your chair!

Vatican, Sistine Chapel

Getting to this divine place is not easy, even if you get to Rome: the queue snakes - a kilometer long! And at home, in front of the monitor, you can see every detail, using the mouse and three cherished buttons in the lower left corner.

Smithsonian Museum of Natural History

126 million specimens of plants, animals, fossils, minerals, rocks, meteorites, archaeological and cultural artifacts - and no need to fly to Washington for them. Move from room to room along the arrows, you come close to the most interesting mammoths and look around, pressing the buttons.

Kremlin opening

A virtual tour of the Kremlin also opens the objects closed for tourists, which are included in the Kremlin complex of the presidential residence. Do not forget to click on the sound: the text is being read not by anyone, but by Batalov.

State Hermitage collection: high resolution

This museum is different in that it is easy for the inexperienced to get lost in it. Yes, and really in a day, unless you look at a couple of rooms - and your head is spinning. Let's start with a workout. This collection contains 100 images, including paintings that are not in the permanent collection of the Hermitage. Can be downloaded in 5441 × 4013 resolution, saying: “This is my size!”.

Uffizi Gallery

Once in the famous palace in Florence with its inhuman collection of European fine art, you move along the corridors in the same way as on Yandex maps - and with bated breath you are looking for Botticelli.

Frick's collection

Freak is not an eccentric in this case, but a famous American industrialist. Although he is an eccentric too: to bequeath such masterpieces to a public museum! On free days of visiting, queues of thirsty people line up to his mansion, and we can inspect his treasures at home completely free of charge.

Prado Museum Online Gallery

The Spaniards do not offer to walk around the halls and turn their heads, but the picture you are interested in from the collection can be seen in very good resolution. And their collection of European fine art is notable.

Metropolitan Museum collection online

Here, too, instead of technical problems - great works. You look, you click, you open, you go crazy. You get closer, you look, you hang. On one Van Gogh you can meditate for a day.

Virtual walks in the Russian Museum

Through all the palaces, gardens and houses of Peter the Great, you can walk with arrows - and read explanatory texts under the window of a virtual walk.

Reconstruction of the Tretyakov Gallery in 1898

Reconstruction is based on photographs by Pavel Tretyakov. The diagram of rooms on the right helps to walk through the 19th century for a young man from the 21st century - and the general view of the room right along the course. Clickable to zoom in on each canvas. The site takes a long time and pompously to load, but it's still interesting there.

Salvador Dali Museum (Florida)

We will examine the paintings of the great guru sura right in the interior - there is information about them right there, if you click on the badge. You can “take a walk” not only in the exposition, but also in all other rooms, and around the museum.

Museum of Oriental Art (Chicago)

For fans of mysterious shards, precious coins with proud profiles, rusted harness and other ancient stuff. Mesopotamia, Egypt, Assyria, Persia and Nubia online.

Moscow City Museum

If dear guests come to the dear capital on the day off of the museum of its history, this history can be studied at the computer, in a warm company, at the house of friends-Muscovites. They probably haven’t got there either in this life yet. Traffic jams, yes, we understand.

Virtual tour of the Moscow Planetarium

According to the scheme, you can jump on all floors from zero to third, along the icons that pop up along the way - in all halls. Consider devices and other interesting objects and read information about them. You can even look into a 4D cinema and cafe. It is a pity that the technique has not yet reached the level of online treats.

Civil Aviation Museum

Airplane lovers can not only wander between them and look from different angles, but also "leave their mark": there is such a fun function in this tour. However, if you wish, you can erase your mark.

Skansen in Chernivtsi