I love visiting museums, and I’m the kind of person who can easily spend hours in one. The problem is that when I’m traveling, there is always more to see than I have time for. Even after several hours in a museum, I usually leave knowing there were rooms I rushed through, paintings I would have liked to examine for longer, or entire sections I didn’t manage to see.
This is one of the reasons I love virtual museum tours and online art collections. I use them to revisit museums I’ve already enjoyed in person, but I’ve also discovered museums online before ever setting foot inside them. In several cases, exploring the collections virtually has made me want to visit the museum even more.
And you don’t need a VR headset. Many of the best free virtual art museum tours work directly in a browser. Some let you move through galleries in 360 degrees, some use Google Arts & Culture Street View, while others give you high-resolution access to thousands of paintings, sculptures, drawings and other works from the collection.
Museums offer different ways to discover their collections online, so throughout the article I’ve specified whether you’ll find a virtual walkthrough, a Google Arts & Culture tour, an interactive digital experience, or an online collection.
1. Louvre Virtual Tours – Paris, France
The Louvre needs little introduction. It is one of the most visited museums in the world and home to masterpieces including Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, the Venus de Milo and the Winged Victory of Samothrace.
Its official website has free virtual tours of selected museum spaces. You can move through rooms and galleries, admire parts of the palace itself and explore exhibitions without going to Paris.
The Louvre also has a huge amount of its collection online, which is useful when you’re more interested in finding a particular work or artist than walking virtually through a room.
Online experience: Official virtual museum tours + online collection
Best for: Famous masterpieces, Renaissance art, Egyptian antiquities and exploring the Louvre itself
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If Paris is also on your travel list, there are many more museums in Paris worth including in your itinerary.
2. Musée d’Orsay Virtual Tour – Paris, France
Musée d’Orsay is one of my favorite museums in the world. I love Impressionism, so visiting it in person was one of the highlights of my time in Paris. Monet, Degas, Renoir, Van Gogh and many other artists I love are represented here.
This is also exactly the type of museum where I find an online visit useful after coming home. When you’re physically inside a large museum, you eventually have to move on. Online, I can return to a painting, zoom in and spend as much time with it as I want.
Google Arts & Culture provides a virtual visit through Musée d’Orsay, while the museum’s official website lets you explore its collection online.
Online experience: Google Arts & Culture virtual tour + official online collection
Best for: Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Monet, Degas, Renoir and Van Gogh
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If you’re considering visiting in person too, these Musée d’Orsay tips will help you plan the real visit.
3. Musée de l’Orangerie Virtual Tour – Paris, France
If Claude Monet’s Water Lilies are high on your art wish list, don’t skip Musée de l’Orangerie. The famous oval rooms were designed around Monet’s monumental Nymphéas panels, and seeing the paintings filling the curved walls gives them a completely different impact from seeing a single reproduction.
Google Arts & Culture lets you move virtually through the museum, while the official Musée de l’Orangerie website gives you access to its collection.
Online experience: Google virtual tour + official online collection
Best for: Monet’s Water Lilies, Impressionism and early modern art
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4. Centre Pompidou Virtual Exhibitions – Paris, France
Centre Pompidou offers a very different experience from the Old Master museums on this list. Its collections concentrate on modern and contemporary art, with artists including Picasso, Kandinsky, Matisse and Miró.
I particularly like its online offering because it isn’t limited to a database of artwork photographs. The museum’s virtual-exhibitions section brings together web exhibitions, virtual reality, guided video tours, interactive experiments and 360° experiences.
Online experience: Virtual exhibitions, 360° tours, interactive experiences, video tours and online collection
Best for: Modern art, contemporary art and more experimental digital museum experiences
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5. Uffizi Gallery Virtual Tours – Florence, Italy
The Uffizi is one of Europe’s great Renaissance museums, with works by Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian, Caravaggio and many other artists.
You have several ways to explore it online. Google Arts & Culture lets you virtually move through the Uffizi galleries, while the museum’s own Digital Archives provide access to artworks, historical material and digital projects.
The Uffizi now also groups official 360° virtual experiences on its own website, so I’m including that option as well without removing the resources I originally found.
Online experience: Official virtual tours + Google Arts & Culture virtual visit + digital archives
Best for: Italian Renaissance art, Botticelli and Old Masters
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6. Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel Virtual Tours – Vatican City
The Vatican Museums have one of the most extensive sets of free virtual art museum tours in Europe.
You can explore famous spaces including the Sistine Chapel and Raphael’s Rooms in 360 degrees. The Sistine Chapel experience is especially useful because you can turn around, look upward and spend time examining Michelangelo’s frescoes without a crowd moving around you.
Online experience: Official 360° virtual tours + online collections
Best for: Sistine Chapel, Raphael Rooms, Renaissance art and Vatican architecture
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7. Galleria dell’Accademia Online – Florence, Italy
Florence’s Galleria dell’Accademia is known around the world as the home of Michelangelo’s David, although its collection extends well beyond that one sculpture.
The museum’s Accademia Online area provides digital experiences connected with Michelangelo and its collections. There is also a detailed Google Arts & Culture 3D experience dedicated to David, which lets you examine the sculpture from different angles and much closer than you could during a busy museum visit.
Online experience: Official online museum experiences + 3D exploration + online collection
Best for: Michelangelo’s David, Renaissance sculpture and art students
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8. Museo del Prado Virtual Tour – Madrid, Spain
The Prado’s online tour is one of the experiences I would put near the top of the list if you want the feeling of moving through a museum rather than simply browsing photographs.
The collection itself is extraordinary, with Velázquez, Goya, El Greco, Bosch, Rubens and Titian among the artists represented.
The official virtual-tour area uses 360° views and gives you another way to experience the museum’s masterpieces from home.
Online experience: Official 360° virtual tour + online collection
Best for: Spanish masters, European Old Masters, Velázquez, Goya and Bosch
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9. Museo Reina Sofía Virtual Tour – Madrid, Spain
If your taste runs toward modern Spanish art, Reina Sofía belongs on your virtual museum list. Its best-known work is Picasso’s Guernica, and the collection also includes Dalí, Miró and many other 20th-century artists.
Google Arts & Culture provides virtual visits connected with Reina Sofía, including the main museum and other spaces.
Online experience: Google Arts & Culture virtual tours + official online collection
Best for: Picasso, Dalí, Miró and Spanish modern art
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10. Brukenthal National Museum Virtual Tour – Sibiu, Romania
The Brukenthal National Museum brings a different part of Europe into this list. Located in Sibiu, Romania, its important art collections are housed in Brukenthal Palace on the city’s main square.
Its Google Arts & Culture presence lets you explore artworks and museum spaces virtually, making this a good opportunity to discover a European art museum that appears far less frequently in international virtual-tour roundups.
Online experience: Google Arts & Culture virtual museum experiences
Best for: European Old Masters, Romanian art and discovering a lesser-known collection
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11. Rijksmuseum Virtual Tours – Amsterdam, Netherlands
The Rijksmuseum makes an impressive amount of its collection accessible online. Rembrandt’s Night Watch and Vermeer’s The Milkmaid are among the famous works, but there is much more to discover.
The museum’s From Home section brings together different ways of exploring the Rijksmuseum remotely, while Google Arts & Culture lets you move through museum spaces. The official online collection is also worth keeping open if you want to search for a particular artist or artwork.
Online experience: Interactive online experiences + Google virtual tours + searchable collection
Best for: Rembrandt, Vermeer, Dutch art and art history
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12. Van Gogh Museum Online – Amsterdam, Netherlands
I am a huge Van Gogh fan, so I can happily spend far too long looking through this one.
The museum has an entire section for enjoying the Van Gogh Museum from home, including digital experiences and virtual material. Google Arts & Culture also has an interactive exploration that lets you move through museum spaces, and the official collection is available separately if you want to search individual works.
Online experience: Virtual material + interactive Google exploration + online collection
Best for: Van Gogh fans, students and anyone who wants to explore one artist in depth
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13. Mauritshuis Virtual Museum – The Hague, Netherlands
The Mauritshuis may be smaller than many museums in this guide, but its collection includes some enormous names. Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring and Rembrandt’s The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp are among the best-known works.
Google Arts & Culture lets you move virtually through the museum. The Mauritshuis also has its own high-resolution virtual museum experience, where you can walk through the rooms and get remarkably close to individual paintings.
Online experience: Official virtual museum + Google virtual tour + online collection
Best for: Vermeer, Rembrandt and detailed high-resolution viewing
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14. Tate Modern Virtual Tour – London, UK
Tate Modern is London’s major destination for international modern and contemporary art, housed inside the former Bankside Power Station.
The independent Tate Modern virtual tour that I originally included is no longer available for public viewing, so this is one of the places where I’ve replaced an old tour link rather than sending you to something that no longer works.
Google Arts & Culture currently provides a virtual Tate Modern experience where you can explore museum spaces and discover works from the collection.
Online experience: Google Arts & Culture virtual tour
Best for: Modern art, contemporary art and Tate Modern’s distinctive architecture
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15. Tate Britain Virtual Tour – London, UK
Tate Britain takes you through centuries of British art, from historic painting to major modern artists. Turner is particularly important here, and exploring Tate Britain together with Tate Modern online gives you two very different views of British collections.
Google Arts & Culture provides a virtual visit, while Tate’s own collection pages give you access to artworks in much greater detail.
Online experience: Google Arts & Culture virtual tour + online collection
Best for: British art and J. M. W. Turner
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16. National Gallery London Virtual Tour – UK
The National Gallery in Trafalgar Square is one of Europe’s great collections of Western European painting. Leonardo da Vinci, Van Gogh, Monet, Turner, Titian and Velázquez are only a few of the artists represented.
Its virtual-gallery section lets you explore the museum remotely, while the online collection is useful if you want to go directly to a particular painter or masterpiece.
Online experience: Virtual gallery + online collection
Best for: Anyone who wants a broad introduction to Western European painting
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17. Belvedere Virtual Tours – Vienna, Austria
I’ve visited the Upper Belvedere in Vienna, and Klimt was naturally one of the main reasons I wanted to go.
We only managed to see part of the palace during that visit, so the online options give me the chance both to return to paintings I’ve seen and to discover works and spaces I missed.
The Belvedere has several different digital resources. Its official online-tour area contains museum material and videos, Google Arts & Culture has multiple virtual visits, and there is also a 360Stories experience that lets you explore the palace.
Online experience: Multiple virtual tours, digital museum material, 360° palace experience and online collection
Best for: Gustav Klimt, The Kiss, Egon Schiele and Vienna around 1900
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18. Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna Virtual Tour – Austria
Kunsthistorisches Museum is one of my favorite museums in Vienna. Even the building makes an impression before you start looking properly at the collections.
The Picture Gallery includes Bruegel, Vermeer, Titian, Rubens and many other major European artists.
Google Arts & Culture lets you virtually move through the museum, while KHM’s own digital area adds articles, videos, podcasts and other material. You can also explore the Picture Gallery collection online.
Online experience: Google virtual tour + official digital museum + online collection
Best for: Bruegel, Old Masters, imperial collections and art history
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19. Albertina Virtual Tour – Vienna, Austria
The Albertina combines the atmosphere of a former Habsburg palace with a huge collection encompassing drawings, prints, photography, architecture, painting and sculpture.
Google Arts & Culture provides a virtual Albertina experience, while the museum’s own collection pages are useful if you’re searching for particular artists or types of art.
Online experience: Google virtual tour + official collection
Best for: Drawings, graphic art, photography and modern art
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20. Alte Pinakothek Virtual Tours – Munich, Germany
Munich’s Alte Pinakothek concentrates on European painting from the Middle Ages through the 18th century, with artists including Dürer, Rubens, Raphael, Titian and Rembrandt.
Google Arts & Culture goes well beyond a few photographs here. You can find virtual tours associated with different schools of painting, making this particularly useful if you’re interested in comparing Italian, Flemish, Dutch, French or Spanish art.
Online experience: Multiple Google virtual tours + museum digital resources
Best for: European Old Masters and exploring art by school or country
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21. Gemäldegalerie Berlin 360° Virtual Tour – Germany
If you want one of the most complete virtual museum tours in this guide, Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie is an excellent place to start.
Its official 360° tour allows you to move room by room through the gallery. You can then continue through Google Arts & Culture or explore the museum’s collection material separately.
Online experience: Official 360° museum tour + Google Arts & Culture + online collection
Best for: A real room-by-room museum experience and European Old Masters
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22. National Gallery of Ireland Virtual Tour – Dublin
Dublin’s National Gallery of Ireland has a collection that combines Irish and European art, including works by artists such as Caravaggio and Jack B. Yeats.
The museum provides an interactive virtual tour of gallery spaces, with VR options available if you happen to have compatible equipment. This was one of the first virtual museum tours I tried, and what a joy it was!
Online experience: Official interactive virtual tour + optional VR + online collection
Best for: Irish art, European painting and students
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23. Hungarian National Gallery Online – Budapest, Hungary
The Hungarian National Gallery occupies part of Buda Castle and provides a broad introduction to Hungarian art from medieval works through the 19th and 20th centuries.
This one is slightly different from a museum-wide 360° tour. Google Arts & Culture is particularly useful for discovering individual Hungarian artists and works, while the museum itself provides more information about its collections online.
Online experience: Google Arts & Culture + official online collection
Best for: Hungarian art and discovering artists you may not encounter in larger Western European museums
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24. Nationalmuseum Virtual Tour – Stockholm, Sweden
Stockholm’s Nationalmuseum is Sweden’s national museum of art and design, bringing together European painting, sculpture, decorative art and important Swedish works.
Google Arts & Culture lets you explore the museum virtually, and the official museum website provides more information about its collections.
Online experience: Google Arts & Culture virtual tour + official collection
Best for: Scandinavian art, European painting and decorative arts
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25. MUNCH Online – Oslo, Norway
MUNCH in Oslo is, unsurprisingly, one of the places to go online when you want to spend time with Edvard Munch’s work.
Google Arts & Culture contains works and digital exhibitions connected with the museum. The museum’s own online material also gives you the opportunity to dig much deeper into Munch’s enormous body of work.
I wouldn’t classify this as the same kind of room-by-room virtual tour you get at the Gemäldegalerie or Prado, but I still think it deserves a place here because the online art itself is the main attraction.
Online experience: Google Arts & Culture + extensive digital collection/catalogue
Best for: Edvard Munch and Expressionism
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26. Ateneum Art Museum Online – Helsinki, Finland
The Ateneum is a wonderful place to discover Finnish art online. Its collection covers major Finnish artists alongside international works and can introduce you to an art tradition that gets far less international attention than French, Dutch or Italian painting.
Google Arts & Culture lets you browse works and digital material connected with the museum, while Ateneum’s own collection pages give you another route into the art.
Online experience: Google Arts & Culture + official online collection
Best for: Finnish art, Nordic art and discovering artists you may not already know
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27. National Gallery Prague Free 360° Virtual Tours – Czech Republic
The National Gallery Prague deserves far more attention in virtual museum lists. Its official website provides free online tours connected with selected exhibitions and collections.
I explored it online and especially enjoyed finding Paul Gauguin and Pablo Picasso alongside Czech artists whose work was new to me. That’s one of my favorite things about virtual museums: I often start because I recognize one artist and end up discovering several more.
Online experience: Official free virtual tours
Best for: Czech art, European modern art and discovering local artists
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28. National Museum in Warsaw Online – Poland
The National Museum in Warsaw has a huge and varied collection covering Polish art alongside European works, ancient material and decorative arts.
Its online presence includes Google Arts & Culture as well as a separate virtual exhibition experience. If Polish painters aren’t yet familiar to you, this is a good place to start exploring them.
Online experience: Google Arts & Culture + virtual exhibition
Best for: Polish art and discovering Central and Eastern European collections
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29. Museum of Cycladic Art 360° Tours – Athens, Greece
The Museum of Cycladic Art is a good choice when you’d like to take a break from paintings and explore much older art.
The museum provides 360° virtual experiences connected with its exhibitions, including the mysterious marble Cycladic figures whose pared-down forms can look remarkably modern despite being thousands of years old.
Online experience: Official 360° virtual tours
Best for: Cycladic culture, ancient Greek art, archaeology and students
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30. Lenbachhaus Online – Munich, Germany
Lenbachhaus in Munich is especially important for anyone interested in Der Blaue Reiter, the Blue Rider group associated with Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc and Gabriele Münter.
The official online collection lets you explore works at your own pace, while an independent 3D Franz Marc experience provides another way to get closer to the art.
Online experience: Official online collection + independent 3D art experience
Best for: Kandinsky, Franz Marc, Gabriele Münter and German Expressionism
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Which Virtual Art Museum Tours Let You Actually Walk Through the Galleries?
If your main reason for being here is to walk through a museum online rather than browse a collection, there are several places I’d try first.
The Gemäldegalerie in Berlin has one of the most complete experiences in this article, letting you move room by room through the museum. The Vatican Museums are excellent if the architecture and museum interiors are as important to you as the art, especially the Sistine Chapel.
The Prado is another good choice for a 360° museum experience, while the Museum of Cycladic Art offers floor-by-floor virtual tours. Uffizi, National Gallery Prague, National Gallery of Ireland and many of the Google Arts & Culture experiences also allow you to move through museum spaces rather than simply opening artwork pages.
Best Free Virtual Art Museum Tours for Students and Kids
Virtual museums can be useful for school projects, homeschooling, art-history lessons or simply introducing a child to art before a real museum visit.
For students, I particularly like museums that offer more than a photograph of a painting. Rijksmuseum has plenty of digital material to explore, the Van Gogh Museum makes it easy to connect the artist’s life with his work, and National Gallery Prague gives you both international names and Czech artists who may be completely new to you.
For sculpture, Galleria dell’Accademia is an obvious choice because of Michelangelo’s David, while the Museum of Cycladic Art opens up ancient art and archaeology.
You can also make the experience much more fun by giving children a goal. Ask them to choose the painting they’d hang in their room, find three animals hidden in different artworks, select the strangest painting they can find, or decide which work they would most like to see in person.
Where to See Famous Works of Art Online
If you’re choosing by masterpiece rather than museum, the Louvre is the obvious place to begin with the Mona Lisa. At the Belvedere, look for Klimt’s The Kiss. Musée de l’Orangerie is the place for Monet’s Water Lilies, while Rijksmuseum gives you Rembrandt’s The Night Watch.
Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring is at the Mauritshuis, Michelangelo’s David is at Galleria dell’Accademia, and the Vatican Museums let you explore the Sistine Chapel frescoes in 360 degrees.
For 20th-century art, Reina Sofía gives you Picasso’s Guernica, while MUNCH is the obvious destination if Edvard Munch is the artist you want to explore.
Virtual Museum Tours Can Help You Plan a Real Museum Visit Too
I don’t see virtual museum tours as replacements for physical museums. I use them alongside real visits.
If I’m planning a museum I haven’t visited before, an online tour can show me what the building feels like, which collections interest me most and which rooms or artists I don’t want to miss.
That becomes even more useful with enormous museums. It is very easy to arrive at a place like the Louvre, Vatican Museums or Kunsthistorisches Museum and realize that there’s simply too much to see properly in one visit.
Afterward, the online collection gives you another chance to revisit works you saw quickly or find something you missed completely.
There is another important benefit too. Not everyone can travel to Paris, Florence, Madrid, London, Amsterdam or Vienna. Cost, distance, mobility, health, family responsibilities and countless other circumstances can make a physical visit difficult or impossible. Online museums make extraordinary art accessible to far more people.
Google Arts & Culture vs. Official Museum Virtual Tours
You’ll notice both throughout this guide.
Google Arts & Culture virtual tours usually work a little like Street View. You click or tap to move through museum rooms, and you can often open individual artworks to see them more closely and read more about them.
Official museum virtual tours vary much more. Some are full 360° recreations of galleries, while others combine video, audio, interactive hotspots, curator commentary and high-resolution images.
Online collections are different again. You aren’t necessarily walking through the museum at all. Instead, you’re searching the institution’s database of paintings, sculptures, drawings and other objects.
For studying one artist or zooming into a particular work, an online collection can actually be more useful than a virtual walk through the galleries.
A laptop or tablet is usually more comfortable than a phone for all of these experiences. You don’t need a VR headset unless a museum specifically offers VR and you want to use it.
Conclusion: Exploring Europe’s Art Museums Online
Nothing on a screen can recreate the feeling of walking into a spectacular museum room and suddenly seeing a painting you’ve known from books for years.
But I don’t think virtual museum tours need to compete with that experience.
I’ve used them after real museum visits because I wanted another look at something. I’ve used them before trips because I wanted to know what awaited me. And I’ve explored museums online that I haven’t yet visited in person and found artists and collections I hadn’t known before.
Sometimes I spend five minutes looking for one painting. Other times I start clicking and realize half an hour has disappeared.
And if a virtual visit eventually makes me want to stand in front of the real painting one day, even better.
If you enjoy virtual museums but would like to leave the art galleries for a while, continue with these European science, history and other museums you can visit online.
You can also cross the Atlantic with my collection of free virtual museum tours in the USA.
Questions About Free Virtual Art Museum Tours
What art museums can I visit virtually for free?
Many major European museums offer some form of free online access. The Louvre, Vatican Museums, Prado, Uffizi Gallery, National Gallery London, Gemäldegalerie Berlin, National Gallery Prague and Museum of Cycladic Art are among the museums in this guide with virtual-tour experiences. Others provide extensive online art collections.
Are these virtual museum tours really free?
The virtual tours and collections linked in this article can be accessed without buying a normal museum admission ticket. Some museums may also offer separate paid digital events, guided online experiences, apps or other products, but those aren’t required for the resources linked here.
Can I take a free virtual tour of the Louvre?
Yes. The Louvre has an official online-tour section where you can explore selected museum spaces and areas of the palace from home. Its collections can also be explored online separately.
Can I visit the Sistine Chapel virtually?
Yes. The Vatican Museums provide a 360° virtual experience of the Sistine Chapel, together with virtual tours of other parts of the museums.
What is the best virtual museum tour for art students?
It depends on what you’re studying. The Prado and Gemäldegalerie are excellent for Old Masters, Uffizi for Renaissance art, Van Gogh Museum for exploring one artist in depth, Rijksmuseum for Dutch art and National Gallery Prague for a mix of international and Czech artists.
Do I need a VR headset for a virtual museum tour?
No. Most of the museums in this guide can be explored using an ordinary browser on a computer, tablet or phone. A few experiences may support VR as an extra option, but it isn’t required.
What’s the difference between a virtual museum tour and an online museum collection?
A virtual museum tour lets you move through a digital representation of rooms or galleries. An online collection is a database of artworks and objects. Some museums offer both. Virtual tours are better when you want the feeling of moving around the museum; digital collections are often better when you want to study one artist or artwork closely.
Can virtual museum tours help me plan a real trip?
Yes. I find them useful for seeing the layout of a museum, identifying the collections I care about most and deciding which works I don’t want to miss. They can be particularly helpful before visiting very large museums where seeing everything properly in one trip isn’t realistic.
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