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The pandemic was not good for Museums, but one positive benefit has been the ability to visit Museums virtually. While a virtual visit will never be anything like going in person, here are five Museums with excellent virtual tours.
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Today is International Museum Day. While the pandemic was not good for museums, the ability to tour museums virtually has been one positive benefit. A virtual visit is no substitute for going in person, but it can be an opportunity to see places you might never get to. Here are some of my favorite virtual tours.
For Personal Tech Media, this is Two Minute Tech. I’m Jim Herman.
First, the British Museum in London is one of the largest in the world, and it holds the record as the largest indoor space on Google Street View. You can view objects like the Elgin marbles and the Rosetta Stone in more than 60 galleries available.
Second, the Museum of Flight in Seattle allows you to tour a number of the aircraft on display. You can climb in the baggage hold of a 787 Dreamliner, sit in the cockpit of a Concorde jet, or explore the inside of the Space Shuttle.
Third, the Vatican offers virtual visits to some of its most beautiful places, including the Sistine Chapel. The Vatican’s website places you inside these locations and lets you move around and zoom in in all directions.
Fourth, the American Battlefield Trust offers the opportunity for virtual tours of over 20 battlefields from the Revolutionary and Civil Wars. Take a virtual walk around historic battlefields like Antietam, Gettysburg, Yorktown, and more.
And given the subject of the show, I have to conclude by mentioning the National Museum of Computing in Bletchley Park, England. It holds an extensive collection of operating computers, some of which date back to the 1940s.