Get out of your house while staying at home! #MuseumFromHome
Updated on May 14, 2021 by pierre
Get out of your house while staying at home! Free culture from your couch
You too are tired of hearing about the Coronavirus. Have you ever tried changing channels on television a hundred times, calling family or friends, changing social networks? But nothing helps… everyone is talking about it… Coronavirus…
Do you really need to change your mind? Here is our best tips for forgetting for a moment what is happening outside. Quite easy, when you know that certain cultural initiatives have emerged. They are free and online. For example, you can watch an opera, visit the Louvre, etc. Without leaving your home. Here is something to make you travel for a moment.
1. World Library ( World Digital Library )
Have you ever dreamed of being able access the treasures of major international libraries ? If the words WDL or BNM mean nothing to you, this is a website that will allow you to make yourself happy. it's about the World Digital Library (BNM), also called World Digital Library). This was launched in 2007 by UNESCO in collaboration with the US Library of Congress. In total, the initiative brings together no less than 32 libraries from 19 countries.
The idea behind the project aims to digitize and make available to everyone the representative documents of World Heritage. It also helps to develop multilingualism and reduce the digital divide between different countries. Of course, Internet access is free.
For example, you can consult usa history, Magellan's travel diary, the story of the famous Galleries-Saint-Hubert in Brussels
2. The Opera of Brussels Free on the internet from March 21, 2020
Before, were you more into opera? But the Coronavirus lockdown makes your outings in Brussels impossible... Rejoice, we may have found a temporary solution to make you smile again. From March 21, 2020, La Monnaie is launching a Virtual currency with no less than 7 free online operas. Here is something to alleviate our loneliness and change your mind.
The Director of La Monnaie, Peter De Caluwe, has decided to broadcast no less than 7 operas produced during the last 2 seasons. These should be available at least until the end of Easter holidays. So you can watch the opera for free online. An eclectic program, from Verdi to Dusapin without forgetting Wagner, you will find your account there. For example, you can watch the following La Monnaie operas for free:
3. #MuseumFromHome: Virtual Museums available to you free of charge
You should be in Paris for your city trip… But you are at home. Containment measures required…. Good news ! All is not lost. Thanks to a solidarity initiative, already over 15 museums now offer online access. From your living room, it is now possible to discover works of art for free. Here is the list of museums accessible for free online:
- The Louvre (France): the site provides access to multiple works. Enter the rooms of the museum, contemplate the facades of the palace and admire the view! The Louvre, thanks to the patronage of Shiseido, invites you to a free virtual visit.
- The Palace of Versailles (France). Listed as a World Heritage Site for 30 years, the Palace of Versailles is one of the finest achievements of French art in the XNUMXth century. You can via Google Art & Culture discover its incredible corridors of mirrors, its paintings, its chandeliers as well as its gardens.
- The Metropolitan Museum Of Art (New York, USA) one of the largest art museums in the world.
- Museum Of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York (USA), is one of the most influential modern and contemporary art museums in the world. MoMA is one of the largest and most influential museums of modern art in the world. Its collections offer an overview of modern and contemporary art. It includes design, drawings, paintings, prints, sculptures, photographs, works of architecture, illustrated books and artists' books, films and electronic media...
- The Van Gogh Museum (Amsterdam, Netherlands), to find the works of the great Dutch painter.
- … And much more!
If you look on Google Culture, new museums appear every day. You can even see Machu Picchu
