Virtual Tours Can Now Be Yours!
One of the best parts of visiting a museum or archaeological site (besides the art) is experiencing the space — grand vaulted ceilings, cozy and intimate study spaces, huge looming columns, and the overall feeling of being surrounded by beauty, history, and culture. Most of our homes are not decorated wall-to-wall with world heritage (oh, how we wish they were!), so we turn to virtual reality, 3D photography, and reconstructed animated tours to fill the void left by being confined to the couch.
Museum Virtual Tours:
Get inside the museums themselves with these virtual experiences.
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Google Arts and Culture connects to a number of museums and historical sites to give you virtual access to countless times and places, all from one location!
Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford
3D Reconstructions
For sites you cannot currently travel to see, immerse yourself in the reconstructions.
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Ancient Greece:
Ancient Rome:
The Domus Aurea (Nero’s Golden Palace, complete with Nero’s colossal statue and *pleasure barge*)
Narrated Virtual Tour (with present-day ruins and reconstructed images)
Ancient Egypt:
Byzantine:
Renaissance:
For more 3D photos, we recommend visiting 360° Cities—search by geographical region, editors’ picks, landscape type, and more!
For more on ancient virtual reality, visit Altair4 and their YouTube page—search by time period, city, etc. Stunning 3D, full color reconstructed tours.
