Visiting Museums Online

As a result of the COVID-19 virus museums and galleries have shut their doors to the public in order to encourage social distancing, however, they also have very active and interesting websites full of images and information to explore and fill your time.

This is just a partial list of all of the museums and galleries all over the world available for a virtual visit:

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City

The Cleveland Museum of Art

The Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska

The Phoenix Art Museum

The Getty in Los Angeles

The American Museum of Natural History in New York City

The National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.

The National Gallery in London

Seeking Refuge

The subjects for John William Waterhouse’s paintings The Decameron and The Enchanted Garden are drawn from a book by 14th century Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio who tells the tales of seven young women and three young men secluded outside the city of Florence during the time of the Black Plague.

Both of these artworks are owned by the Lady Lever Art Gallery in Port Sunlight (an early “planned” community outside of Liverpool) a small and delightful museum to visit.

Manifest Destiny

I went last year to see the Grand Canyon in person and it does live up to the hype. There were a lot of people in the park and lines of cars to enter but once you got down to the edge of it and looked out without being able to see where it ends, nature suddenly got very large and civilization sudden got very small. Manifest Destiny