The Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience in Seattle provides a digital database of archives, photographs, artifacts, and access to online exhibits like the Cantonese Opera Collection.Ĭhinese tapestry of phoenix among flowers and rocks, dated as far back as the Ming dynasty (1368-1644). Go deeper into exhibits with audio guides made especially for kids between the ages of 6 and 10, along with tours in American Sign Language.
The Whitney Museum in New York City is opening its digital doors to a collection of more than 25,000 works, including videos of public programs and performances. Other digital exhibits from museums across the U.S.
In José Campeche y Jordán’s “El Gobernador Don Miguel Antonio de Ustáriz,” you can see the blue cobblestones being carried in the background. There are also numerous 360 YouTube videos that explore different historic sites or ones that take a closer look at fashion milestones, like Coco Chanel’s iconic LBD, or little black dress.Īnd last year, Google digitized hundreds of artworks made in Puerto Rico. Pakistan’s Lahore Museum has online collections of Gandhara sculptures and the largest collection of rare and old coins in the Subcontinent. Image courtesy of Smithsonian American Art Museum/Teodoro Vidal Collection José Campeche y Jordán’s “San Juan Nepomuceno” (1798). (In a 1953 entry, after her right leg was amputated, she wrote, “Feet, what do I need you for, if I have wings to fly?”) More well-known museums, like the Guggenheim in New York and the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, also make appearances.įor a comprehensive map of all the collections, start here.Ī few recommendations: From the Dolores Olmedo Museum in Mexico City, you can peek into Frida Kahlo’s diary. The Google Arts & Culture team has worked with hundreds of museums and galleries across the world to digitize some of their art collections - from Istanbul to New Delhi to Bogotá to Indianapolis, Indiana. READ MORE: I toured this exhibit on epidemics before the coronavirus pandemic shut it down When in doubt, Google. And this creepy, patent model of a “creeping baby doll,” if that’s your thing. A Winslow Homer painting of waves slapping the side of a Maine cliff. There’s a centuries-old oil painting of Pocahontas. The Smithsonian Institute also recently made more than 2.8 million images public on an open-access platform online. He was currently on display at the National Postal Museum in Washington, D.C. After he died in 1897, mail clerks raised money to preserve Owney. The tags and medals on his collar marked his travels. Owney the dog, who was the unofficial mascot of the Railway Post Office in the late 1800s.
and New York are temporarily closed, but there are many different types of collections to sift through online. Nearly all of the 20 museums and galleries of the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C. The Smithsonians have no shortage of options You can rotate a 3D model of the skeleton of a woolly mammoth, or enjoy the ennui on display in Mary Cassatt’s 1878 masterpiece “Little Girl in a Blue Armchair.”(The little girl’s face! The resting Brussels Griffon! The turquoise!)īelow are some exhibits and artwork collections you can view online, whether you’re socially distancing at home, need a distraction, or just simply want to get lost in some art. But that doesn’t mean their collections and other online art exhibits can’t be viewed from home. As communities scale back the size of their gatherings, or stop meeting all together, many museums are temporarily shut down as a precautionary measure. The novel coronavirus has disrupted public life.Įxperts have called for “social distancing” - the broad, conscious effort to avoid close contact with other people or public places - amid the global novel coronavirus pandemic to limit the transmission of the virus.
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