The Library's Museum passes, opens a new window have long been popular offerings at the Library, but during the time of quarantine the museums are closed and potential visitors must stay home. However, some museums have made virtual tours or online representation of their entire holdings available for anyone to see from the comfort of their home. What follows is but a small selection of museums that have made their collections available virtually. Enjoy these offerings from near and far!
Local Museums
Museum of Fine Arts, opens a new window
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, opens a new window
Museum of African American History, opens a new window
Boston Children's Museum, opens a new window
Peabody Essex Museum, opens a new window
DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, opens a new window
Shelter In Place Gallery, opens a new window, a tiny pop-up gallery started by the Boston artist Eben Haines, opens a new window where the scale is 1 inch equals 1 foot.
United States
Walters Art Museum, opens a new window, Maryland
Barnes Foundation, opens a new window, Pennsylvania
Solomon R. Guggenheim, opens a new window, New York
The Broad, opens a new window, California
National Gallery of Art, opens a new window, Washington, D.C.
Art Institute of Chicago, opens a new window, Illinois
City Museum, opens a new window, Missouri
International
Museu de Arte de São Paulo, opens a new window, Brazil.
Neues Museum, opens a new window, Germany
Palace Museum, opens a new window, China
Vatican Museums, opens a new window, Italy
Zacheta National Gallery of Art, opens a new window, Poland
Muséosphère, opens a new window, France
Tallinn Art Hall, opens a new window, Estonia
National Galleries of Scotland, opens a new window, Scotland
Rijksmuseum, opens a new window, Netherlands
Museo Frida Kahlo, opens a new window, Mexico
The British Museum, opens a new window, England
And just for fun, a musical virtual gallery tour! Russian composer Moden Mussorgsky wrote his "Pictures at an Exhibition" as a virtual tour of works of his friend Viktor Hartmann. There had been a major exhibition of his paintings at the Academy of Fine Arts in Saint Petersburg soon after he died in 1839. A "promenade" theme precedes each movement as the viewer moves from one artwork to the next. The paintings depicted in this gallery weren't ones that were displayed in the Saint Petersburg exhibition, but that show influenced Mussorgsky's composition based on drawings and watercolors that the composer knew personally.
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