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Buckingham Palace
San Diego Zoo webcams
Asian Art Museum
Videos, explanations and more take you through the pieces
in this enormous museum and showcase artworks from
different parts of Asia. https://education.asianart.org/
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Walk through this huge museum and see their many famous
exhibits (including dinosaurs!) in a room-by-room 360 degree
walking tour. naturalhistory.si.edu/visit/virtual-tour
The Museum of the World/British Museum
The Museum of the World is an interactive experience
taking virtual visitors through time, continents and cultures.
The project, which is a partnership between the British
Museum and Google Cultural Institute, allows you to
discover some of the most fascinating objects from the
British Museum’s collection using the most advanced
technology available.
britishmuseum.withgoogle.com
The White House
The White House Experience mobile app not only takes you
on a virtual tour of the White House and the surrounding
neighbourhood, it also takes you on a journey through time
and teaches White House customs. You can even find out
which of the past Presidents you look most like.
www.whitehousehistory.org/digital-library/projects/
the-white-house-experience-mobile-app
Tours of the White House can also be taken through
Google Arts & Culture.
artsandculture.google.com/partner/the-white-house
Buckingham Palace
Going to London to visit the Queen is pretty much imposable
at the moment, but you can still check out Buckinham
Palace, the Queen’s primary residence, from the comfort of
your armchair. Virtual tours include a look around the Grand
Staircase; the White Drawing Room; the Throne Room and
the Blue Drawing Room.
www.royal.uk/virtual-tours-buckingham-palace
The Google Arts Project
Google Arts and Culture is a resource bank that enables
you to access an extremely broad range of material. Walk
Asian Art Museum
through museums (including the Van Gogh Museum, MoMA
and National Gallery of Art), view high-resolution images of
artworks, explore destinations such as London Bridge, step
into the Orion and go inside a space shuttle.
artsandculture.google.com/explore
NASA 360 Tours
Take guided tours behind the scenes at NASA. The tours
are all filmed in 3D, so you can see every corner of this
amazing place!
www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLStC43yAV6zQvFdRe
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Exploratorium
A pulic learning laboratory located in San Francisco,
Exploraorium also offers thousands of short, engaging
videos online. Most subjects across the school curriculum
are covered and many have experiments or interesting
extension activities to go with them. There is inspiration for
web based projects, lists of apps and also a virtual gallery
with lots of different exhibits to learn from.
www.exploratorium.edu/explore
Big Bang AR by CERN
What happened at the beginning of Space and Time? Don’t
know the answer? Walk through the universe as it forms
around you on this immersive augmented reality field trip
through the app Big Bang AR by CERN
(Available as iOS/Android)
home.cern/resources/document/physics/big-bang-ar-
app-background-information
Curator Table
Visit hundreds of art galleries at once with this vast collection
of searchable art. Find links between works across time
and space.
artsexperiments.withgoogle.com/curatortable/
National Parks
NationalParks.org leads you on electronic field trips to
some amazing parks you may never otherwise get to visit.
The National Parks Service offers free ranger-guided virtual
field trips on a first come first serve basis.
www.nationalparks.org/explore-parks/all-parks
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