Arts & Culture Resources

We know during this difficult time many of you are looking for ways to free your mind and gain some well-deserved breaks from our current reality. Enjoy what the Arts have to offer by following any of the links below.

• Check out these many live webcams of zoo animals right from your desktop! Thanks to our friends at Hampton Public Library for sharing this resource on ‘Virtual Zoology: The Animal Kingdom Branch of Biology’. Spy on your favorite exotic animals, here: https://brainly.com/insights/virtual-zoology-the-animal-kingdom-branch-of-biology
• Here’s your chance to virtually travel Dubai and explore some of the best activities and attractions it has to offer. Thank you to our friend that shared this resource! https://www.bayut.com/mybayut/virtual-travel-dubai/
• The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra has shared 50+ years of concerts and one-on-one interviews with composers, soloists, and conductors, here: https://www.berliner-philharmoniker.de/en/titelgeschichten/20192020/digital-concert-hall/
• The Metropolitan Opera hopes to brighten the lives of our audience members even while their stage is dark. Each day, a different encore presentation from the company’s Live in HD series is being made available for free streaming on the Met website, here: https://www.metopera.org/user-information/nightly-met-opera-streams/
• Looking for a relaxing musical setting to destress during this difficult time? NPR’s entire collection of their Tiny Desk Concerts are available anytime, here: https://www.npr.org/series/tiny-desk-concerts/
• West-End musical genius Andrew Lloyd Webber has stepped up to make available his collection of Broadway musicals to the public, for free, once a week via YouTube! The Phantom awaits you, here: https://consequenceofsound.net/2020/04/andrew-lloyd-weber-musicals-streaming-free-youtube/
• Join thousands of others for a virtual tour of the famous Louvre in Paris, here: https://www.louvre.fr/en/visites-en-ligne
• Thanks to the Musei Vaticani you can take a tour of one of the world’s oldest, most cherished, and most ornate structures, the Vatican via seven virtual tours, here: http://www.museivaticani.va/content/museivaticani/en/collezioni/musei/tour-virtuali-elenco.1.html
• The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery tells the history of America through individuals who have shaped its culture, and it is available for your adventure, here: https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/national-portrait-gallery
• Take a full-length virtual journey through Russia’s Hermitage Museum, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49YeFsx1rIw
• Crystal Bridges, our state’s very own National Art Museum thanks to the Walton Family, has made several of its exhibits open to the public via online and virtual reality. Take a look, here: https://crystalbridges.org/