With this confinement, many museums offer virtual tours, free, on their website. Even though the lockdown began on May 11, very few museums have reopened their doors to the public. While waiting for the openings to become democratized, many of them offer to make us travel from our sofa. Follow us to discover our top 15 best museums to visit online!
Online museums across the France
The Louvre Museum, aka the most visited museum in the world, offers you an online tour of these wonderful rooms. Through the small gallery, the room of Egyptian antiquities or in the medieval Louvre, you can discover the masterpieces of this monument. 
The Pompei exhibition, which was scheduled to take place from March 25 to June 8, could not take place because of the coronavirus. The Réunion des Musées Nationaux-Grand Palais then organized a virtual tour. The site has even provided a special link for people who own a VR headset. You can download the tour directly here.
The sublime castle of Louis XIV can be visited virtually on their website. Of course you can see the masterful Hall of Mirrors without any people, but also the flower gardens.
The Musée d'Orsay, inaugurated in 1986 in the former Gare d'Orsay, welcomes you to its website for an online visit. You will find works by Van Gogh, Monet or Degas. If you like impressionism, realism or symbolism, you will be delighted! 
The museum with wax figures takes us through its corridors thanks to technology. This is really a favorite of the editor. The quality is more than correct, the names of celebrities are displayed when you hover the mouse over them and many rooms of the museum are available. The visit does not cost a penny against 20 € in normal times for an adult ticket.
Museums of Europe
Between Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel or the Urban VIII Gallery, you can immerse yourself in Italian culture.
The museum has more than 7 million objects from all continents. The site allows to observe thousands of them according to their date as well as their origin. The oldest coin dates from 2 million years ago! 
You will be able to discover with this virtual tour three places: the galleries of the museum but also the Palacio de Cristal and the Palacio Velazquez. You can also admire Picasso's famous Guernica .
The Van Gogh Museum is one of the must-visit during a trip to Amsterdam. It brings together the masterpieces of the man who cut off his ear. The reopening of the museum should not be done before June 1st, we invite you in the meantime to discover this museum online. A video on YouTube is also available here.
The museum in Figueres highlights works by Dalí. We find the movement of Dadaism but also pop art. The artist also asked to be buried under the dome of the museum. A pleasant visit without moving!
Visit internationally
The Museum of Modern Art in New York allows us to admire works by artists such as Matisse, Picasso or Andy Wharol. Paintings and sculptures dating back to at least 1880 are available at will on site. 
The Guggenheim Museum, located in New York, brings together many works of modern art. It is particularly recognizable by its famous spiral staircase that you can observe with this virtual tour.
Two online exhibitions are offered by this American museum. The first is on American fashion and the second includes works by the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer.
For the first time, La casa Azul or blue house, allows us to visit its magnificent museum from a distance. This house, located in Coyoacán, Mexico, was that of Frida Kahlo, she was born there in 1907 and died in 1954. You can visit your room online but also your garden. Some works of the artist are exhibited there as well as those of her husband the painter Diego Rivera. 
Since April 2020, 12 virtual reality tours have been set up by the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities. Come and discover the tomb of Ramses VI and Saqqara or the 5,000-year-old tomb of Meresankh III. https://www.facebook.com/moantiquities/posts/2960770420635255 We hope you enjoyed this virtual trip!
