Virtual Museum Tours Worth Joining

NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY – Find the virtual exhibition of the BP Portrait Award on the National Portrait Gallery site from May 5.

Tate Modern – Join Nick Grimshaw and Frances Morris on a Enjoy a 360* whistlestop tour around Tate Modern’s Blavatnik Building.

COURTAULD GALLERY – You can look closely at masterpieces from their collection including Vincent van Gogh’s Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear or Édouard Manet’s A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, analyse individual brush strokes to the texture of the paint.

THE NATIONAL GALLERY – In 2016, Google created a 360° tour of Rooms 4, 5, 9, 10, 11, 12, 15 and Central Hall at The National Gallery. Immerse yourself in Renaissance masterpiecesfrom Northern Italy, the Netherlands and Germany, including works by Titian, Veronese, and Holbein.

British Museum – If you install the Google Arts & Culture App you can enjoy a virtual reality tour of the British Museum.

There are about 2000 museums you can visit online here… can you pop over and visit them this weekend ?

Before I go, did you know that Clash of Clans was the most searched game of 2015, and Dora the Explorer has the best SEO ? You can find out more facts like that on Googles search tool which looks back over 20 years of popular search trends, created by Artist in Residence Cyril Diagne.