The most beautiful initiatives of art places in Italy that make their spaces and their works accessible thanks to virtual museums.
Due to the resurgence of the pandemic, the exhibitions and the public opening services of museums and of archaeological areas have been suspended. There culture is one of the most precious assets of Italy, culture is a living matter. The idea of creating virtual visits e online activity was born from here, from the desire of the most famous Italian museums to make the artistic heritage, between art spaces, film libraries, theaters and libraries.
For all fans of art the opening of virtual museums is an unmissable opportunity to be able to discover catalogs, collections, in-depth works through online visits and virtual tour. While waiting to resume visiting the immense Italian cultural heritage, Italian museums and archaeological areas offer the opportunity to explore works, authors and thematic itineraries from the comfort of home through a smartphone or PC. Between websites and social accounts, we recommend some Italian museums and art places to visit online with the best virtual tours.
Vatican museums
The Vatican Museums offer the public some free virtual tours, including that of the famous Sistine Chapel. The various rooms can be explored through remarkable 360 ° images, which constitute an acceptable compromise for this period of forced absence from museums.
The Egyptian Museum of Turin
Among the places of culture forced to close its doors to the public there is also the Egyptian Museum of Turin, which however has made numerous contents available for free. Twice a week, the Director's Walks, virtual tours conducted by Director Christian Greco, are uploaded to the museum's YouTube channel. We can also virtually visit the temporary exhibition Invisible Archeology and the Snapshots section from the collection, videos in which the curators tell about some of the most curious objects in the museum. Finally, we can access the collection database online, full of images and information, and the specific one of the papyrus collection.
The Brera art gallery
Even the Brera Art Gallery offers the public a free virtual tour, specially set up in such a way as to improve the use of the various works through the vast majority of Internet browsers.
Virtual museums: the Uffizi Gallery
One of the most known and loved art places in the world, the Uffizi Gallery, could not be missing from our excursus on virtual museums. While waiting to be able to return to Florence for a live visit, we can do a virtual tour in 3D 10 rooms of the museum, including those dedicated to Titian and Tintoretto.
The Quirinale stables
Even the Quirinale stables have adapted to the closures, making them available to the public free of charge Raphael beyond the exhibition, a series of video-stories, insights and backstage of the Raffaello.1520-1483 exhibition, forced to an interruption for the reasons we already know.
Milan Cathedral
Among the virtual museums available to the public, the Cathedral of Milan. In this period of forced closure, we can still admire the dazzling beauty of the Duomo in a series of panoramic photographs, which range from inside the Cathedral to the Terraces, including the Great Museum.
Prada Foundation
Fondazione Prada rethinks its digital communication and, in this moment of emergency, transforms this crisis into an opportunity for study and analysis. For this reason, the institution has transformed its website and social channels, starting with Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Vimeo and Youtube, into a cultural proposal and tools to experiment with new formats and virtual visits to exhibitions. A laboratory of ideas like Virtual Reality, a project that allows you to visit the spaces, exhibitions and initiatives and collections of Prada, which gives us a real immersion in the universe of the Miuccia Prada and Patrizio Bertelli maison.
Basilica of San Marco
Among the wonders of art temporarily closed to the public there is also the Basilica of San Marco in Venice, one of the most suggestive locations in the world. To remedy the temporary inability to visit this place, three virtual tours are available for tourists: one for the interior of the Basilica, which includes the Treasury and Sanctuary of San Marco, one for the outside and one for the Piazzetta San Marco.
MAXXI
Among the virtual museums that can be visited in this period of restrictions there is also the MAXXi in Rome. Thanks to the collaboration with the Google Art Project, to this address it is possible to visit a selection of 55 works from the collections of Art, Architecture and Photographers, and learn about all the information.
Trajan's Markets Museum of the Imperial Fora
The Mercati di Traiano Museo dei Fori Imperiali also offer the public a virtual tour of the various rooms, developed with Immersive Virtual Reality technology and created using photographic processing and montage techniques. The tour is available free of charge to this address and requires the installation of Flash player.
Colosseum
Among the virtual museums and art places that we can visit in this period there is also the legendary Colosseum of Rome, which even before the pandemic had made available to its visitors an hour-long 4K virtual walking tour. You can see the video directly below.
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