The anchor platform for all of these is Google Arts & Culture — 360° street view inside hundreds of museums, zoomable high-resolution artwork, virtual tours. Start there if you want one place that connects everything.
Art & Culture
The great museums
The Louvre
Paris, France
Seven virtual tours including Egyptian Antiquities and the Galerie d'Apollon. 3D walkthrough experience. The Mona Lisa up close without the crowds.
All ages
Van Gogh Museum
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Full virtual tour with zoomable brushwork — you can examine the texture of the paint in Starry Night and Irises. The most intimate way to understand how Van Gogh actually worked.
Art lovers
Rijksmuseum
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Rembrandt's Night Watch with an interactive deep-dive into every figure. The Dutch Golden Age in detail. Also includes a playable exploration game set in the museum.
All ages
Musée d'Orsay
Paris, France
The Impressionists — Monet, Renoir, Degas, Cézanne — in the extraordinary converted railway station. Virtual tours with deep curatorial notes.
Art lovers
The Met 360°
New York, USA
Spherical video that puts you inside the Great Hall, the Temple of Dendur (Egyptian, 15 BC), and the medieval galleries. Award-winning immersive video series.
All ages
National Gallery London
London, UK
European paintings from the 13th–19th centuries — da Vinci, Vermeer, Turner, Constable. Room-by-room virtual experience with multimedia extras.
Art lovers
History & Sacred Spaces
Sacred architecture and historical sites
The Sistine Chapel
Vatican City
360° tour of Michelangelo's ceiling and The Last Judgment — the entire space at your own pace, without the crowd noise. Also includes Raphael's Rooms. Genuinely awe-inducing.
All ages
British Museum
London, UK
The Rosetta Stone, the Elgin Marbles, the Lewis Chessmen — 8 million artifacts from human civilization. The "Museum of the World" interactive timeline lets you explore by century and continent.
History lovers
Anne Frank House
Amsterdam, Netherlands
A walk through the Secret Annex — where Anne Frank and her family hid for two years. The most moving historical virtual experience available online.
13+
Science, Space & Wonder
For the young and the curious — especially Max
Smithsonian Natural History
Washington D.C., USA
Room-by-room exploration including the David H. Koch Hall of Fossils — stand beneath a Tyrannosaurus rex. One of the most complete virtual museum experiences available. Free.
All ages · great for kids
Air & Space Museum
Washington D.C., USA
Aircraft, spacecraft, moon landers. Virtual tours of the Udvar-Hazy Center with close-up views of the Space Shuttle Discovery and SR-71 Blackbird. Perfect for future pilots.
All ages · great for kids
International Space Station
400km above Earth
NASA's virtual tour of the ISS — float through the modules, see where astronauts sleep, eat, exercise, and work. The closest most of us will ever get.
All ages · great for kids
Guggenheim Bilbao
Bilbao, Spain
Frank Gehry's titanium-clad building is itself a work of art. The virtual tour shows the architecture from inside and out — the rippling surfaces, the atrium, the Jeff Koons Puppy out front.
Architecture lovers