A great pre-amble and research excursion (with some really nice labelling) prior to a real-world trip. Why do we love this one so much? Partly because of BMAG’s brilliantly bonkers and vast Victorian interior that takes you through vaulted rooms past neo classical sculptures, Ruskin pots and loads of Victorian and Pre-Rapaelite paintings. Something a little different in this solitary wander round a patently English provincial museum and council chambers with its quintessential collection of civic and royal portraiture. There’s also a separate Google tour and a VR outing on offer – if you happen to have a VR headset to hand. Did we mention we like museum mannequins…?Īlso in London the National Gallery has been dabbling with virtual tours for quite a few years and this nifty Sainsbury Wing shufty allows you to stop in front of many a masterpiece – and read the labels. Tip: Head up the stairs and turn left (half way up).Īnother great one from Imperial War Museums, this one lets you take a good old roam around the highlights of the brilliant floating museum that is HMS Belfast. In Woking the Lightbox has this 360 tour that enters through the giftshop and lets you take in the Scottish Colourists and the wonders of a local collection that travels through social history and archaeology. National Museum Liverpool’s virtual tour offers some very interesting takes on the city’s history and museum offer by guiding you through a thoughtful selection of galleries and exhibits of the International Slavery Museum and the World Museum. Be amazed and then resolve to visit.Ĭourtauld.ac.uk/gallery/about/3d-gallery-virtual-tour What more could you ask for?Īnd while we’re on the subject of war bunkers – Britain’s second most famous heritage bunker is the York Cold War bunker – an eerie nuclear command centre that is well explored and explained in this virtual visit on Google Arts and Culture.Ī/exhibit/preparing-for-nuclear-war-1961-1991/fgKCtxvYQmQ9JgĪ great virtual reminder of one of the capital’s most unique public art spaces holding an equally impressive collection comes courtesy of this comprehensive and absorbing tour of the Courtauld Gallery. This access all areas excursion through the labyrinthine wartime HQ of Winston Churchill beneath the streets of Whitehall is brilliant and includes dead ends, fire escapes, mannequins, siren suits and every nook and cranny of one of the most atmospheric museum spaces in London. This new interactive virtual tour of Brunel’s famous STEAM Museum explores the galleries of the museum, gets close to iconic GWR locomotives and memorabilia, and even accesses home-schooling resources and interactive games.Ī neat little tour down the Black Country Living Museum’s Victorian Mine, which is great – and not just for the slightly unnerving encounter with their mining museum mannequins – but also for the brilliant Black Country dialect narration and the sound effects that accompany it. There are also themed versions for schools (or home schoolers) exploring worship at the Abbey, its links with the monarchy, the building of the Abbey, and the Abbey as a place of memorial. The painted Hall of the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich is one of those wondrous places, and this classy 360 allows you to really revel in the Sistine Chapel-like wonder of it all – or at least properly whet your appetite for a real world visit.Ī little less smooth but still very interesting, Westminster Abbey’s virtual tour shows highlights including the Coronation Chair, the Grave of the Unknown Warrior and the Shrine of St Edward the Confessor. Even more cases of amazing stuff to be had up there… It makes for a surprisingly rich adventure – and just like a real visit, you’ll probably want to come back and explore this virtual museum again and again. Let’s start in one of the most museumy of museums and this virtual wander round the myriad cases of the Pitt Rivers. Go for the full screen option and explore… The Pitt Rivers Museum Oxford With a few nifty mouse skills you may even discover things you have never seen before – including the museum fire escape and corner of the stair well, both of which seem to be popular destinations whenever we try to navigate these things.īut navigation aside, there’s lots to enjoy in the 360 museum panorama visit – and here’s a big bunch of them, including some lesser known museums we have been enjoying in lockdown land. Let’s be honest, virtual 360-degree tours or panoramas can be a bit weird sometimes, but we are in very weird times and a 360 visit is one of the best ways to get inside a museum right now. We reckon we’ve got enough virtual-360-degree-panorama-museum-tours in this round up to keep you going until Christmas…
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