School trips were cancelled way before the school closures because of the Coronavirus outbreak, but learning at home means children can still learn with museums, zoos and other visitor attractions through free online virtual tours.
Dozens of sites offer virtual tours along with learning content, so that you can take explore museums, zoos, landmarks and attractions all over the world from your home.
As well as the virtual tours many zoos and aquariums offer free live streams of their animal attractions so that you and your family can watch the animals up close online.
Here's some of the best virtual tours, sorted by attraction type:
International Space Station in Google Street View
Google Arts & Culture now have a dedicated Space Exploration page, and it includes a 360 degree virtual tour of the International Space Station. You can take a look inside the space station in great detail, guiding yourself around and zooming in to see amazing details of life in space for astronauts. The Space Exploration page also includes photos from space, facts about life on the ISS and more.
Disney Parks Virtual Tours, Rides & Parades
- Disney Magic Moments virtual park tours, rides, parades and more
- Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance virtual ride through
- Cars Radiator Springs Racers virtual ride through
- Toy Story Slinky Dog Dash Rollercoaster virtual ride through
- Walt Disney Parks virtual park tours with streetview
- Virtual viewing of Happy Ever After nighttime fireworks show
- 'It's A Small World' virtual ride through
- Disneyland's 'Magic Happens' parade
- Disney Cruise Line’s ‘Beauty and the Beast’ virtual theatre viewing
Virtual Natural History Museum
Delve into the Museum from home with a virtual self-guided tour of the galleries, an interactive experience about Hope the blue whale and audio guides narrated by Sir David Attenborough.
- Take a virtual stroll through the Wizarding World Fantastic Beast: The Wonder Of Nature exhibition
- Take a deep dive into the life of a blue whale Explore the rich history of Hope, the blue whale suspended from the ceiling in Hintze Hall.
- Let Sir David Attenborough guide you around Hintze Hall
- Go on a virtual tour of the Museum Google Arts & Culture gives you access to 300,000 specimens within the Museum's collections, along with 14 digital exhibitions, virtual tours and an interactive gigapixel photo of Hintze Hall's gilded canopy.
- Flick through Wildlife Photographer of the Year images
- Explore a 360° panorama of Antarctica
- Find out what it takes to be a dinosaur hunter
- Check out the Hintze Hall balcony displays: seabirds, pheasants, rocks and minerals.
- Examine a 3D model of Dippy's skull
- See illustrations from HMS Endeavour
- Browse the Library and Archives digital collections
- Uncover highlights from the collections on display including specimens from space, the spirit collection, Charles Darwin and the Treasures gallery.
Landmarks and Tourist Destinations Virtual Tours
- Athens Acropolis, Greece
- Buckingham Palace, London
- Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico
- Christ The Redeemer, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Cliffs of Moher, Ireland
- Colosseum, Rome
- Great Wall Of China
- Hagia Sophia Cathedral, Istanbul, Turkey
- Machu Picchu, Peru
- National Parks, USAincluding Hawaii Volcanoes
- Northern Lights
- Petra, Jordan
- Stonehenge
- Street Art with Google
- Taj Mahal
- Tour of Rome, Italy
- The Pyramids, Egypt
- The White House, Washington DC, USA
London Attractions
- 10 Downing Street
- 360 Virtual Tour of London
- British Library
- British Museum
- Buckingham Palace
- Churchill War Rooms
- City Tour of London
- Courtauld Gallery
- Hampton Court Palace
- Houses Of Parliament
- London Eye
- London Zoo
- Museum Of London Docklands
- National Gallery
- Natural History Museum
- Royal Albert Hall
- Royal Opera House
- Tower Bridge
- Tower Of London
- Twickenham Rugby Stadium
Museums and Art Galleries Virtual Tours
- Anne Franke Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- British Museum, London
- Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain
- Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia
- History Of Science Museum, Oxford University
- J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, United States
- Louvre Museum Paris
- MASP, Sao Paolo, Brazil
- Met Museum, New York
- Musée d’Orsay, Paris
- Musei Vaticani, Vatican City
- Museum Of London Docklands
- Museum of Flight
- National Gallery, London
- National Gallery Of Arts, Washington DC
- Natural History Museum, London
- National Museum of Computing on Bletchley Park
- National Museum Of US Air Forces
- Picasso Museum, Barcelona
- Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Royal Academy Of Arts, London
- Salvatore Dali Museum, Figueres, Spain
- Smithsonian, Washington DC
- Tate Britain, London
- Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy
- US Holocaust Museum
- Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Virginia Living Museum
- Women's History Museum, Virginia, USA
- Yale Centre For British Art
Theme Parks and Attractions Virtual Tours
- AirPano
- Berliner Philharominker
- ExoPlanets Nasa
- Langley Research Centre, NASA
- Legoland
- Walt Disney Parks
- Wellcome Collection
Zoos and Aquariums Virtual Tours
- African Animals
- Atlanta Zoo
- Cincinnati Zoo
- Dublin Zoo
- Edinburgh Zoo
- Explore.org Live Cams
- Flamingo Land
- Florida Aquarium
- Hirakawa Zoo, Japan
- International Wolf Centre
- Kansas City Zoo
- Melbourne Zoo
- National Aquarium, USA
- National Zoo, Washington DC
- Osaka Zoo
- San Diego, California, Zoo
- Yellowstone National Park
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