While you can’t replicate the experience of learning from something firsthand, children may gain more from a briefer and more focused virtual visit without the crowds, the lines and onset of museum legs. Many of the world’s famous museums have put their collections online.
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Start with NASA’s short and sweet 360-degree tours, download the Space Center Houston’s app which will give your kids, among other things, a space selfie, and then finish up exploring Mars with the Curiosity rover (and Google). If you want to take virtual travel to the next level then it’s time to visit some of the fascinating space-related sites online.
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If you want to make it even more discussion provoking, its Heritage on the Edge series looks at how people around the world are protecting five different cultural sites from climate change.
With its trek experiences you can walk through the Great Pyramids of Giza, visit the temples of Angkor, explore the canals of Venice and much more – and all with bite-sized shots of information, short clips and footage that makes you want to click on. Google has done some great work in making some of the most well-known attractions in the world digitally accessible. The temples of Angkor can be explored digitally © Terry Cluley / 500px Explore some of the wonders of the world By keeping them short and using personal narrative, supplementary clips and sound bites, alongside some stunning footage, these tours are really accessible to children. For a nose around pretty much anywhere in the world (perhaps pick somewhere related to a topic in their school work), Google’s Street View feature is a good place to start, but we also recommend the tours of five US national parks. When lockdown is limiting our kids’ access to the natural world, spending some time exploring it virtually is better than nothing. Focusing on one painting or artist can be a good way for kids to access art, so why not enjoy a children’s virtual tour of the famous Night Watch, or go to the Warhol exhibition currently at Tate Modern in London, and round it off with a kid's perspective on Pop Art via TateKids. You could start with the MetKids dedicated site or MoMA’s audio guides for kids on various paintings in its care. Some of the world’s most famous art galleries were offering interactive experiences and virtual content for kids well ahead of lockdown. Take this virtual walking tour of London from Millennium Bridge to St Paul's Cathedral Take an online tour of an art gallery But just a simple YouTube search of water parks or roller-coasters will also allow you and your kids to experience the thrill of waiting at the top of a huge aqua slide or sitting at the front of a ride as it starts chugging upwards… If Disney is your thing, check out the best virtual tours from Disney parks around the world, or fans of little plastic bricks can take a 360-degree view of Legoland Windsor’s Miniland. Perhaps less educational but definitely a huge ton of fun is taking a trip to a theme or water park while on lockdown. If marine life interests your kids, we love these Sea Curious clips too. Follow in the footsteps of a visitor to the Georgia Aquarium, or for something shorter check out the live webcams on the penguins, otters and "secret reef" at the Tennessee Aquarium. There's plenty to learn from a digital visit to an aquarium © Rudy Mareel / Shutterstock Visit a virtual aquariumĪquariums lend themselves well to the virtual experience as static cameras can capture tanks and large pools well.
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