Free museum and attraction virtual tours and other online educational activities
Staying home with your children this summer doesn’t have to be boring! We have gathered a massive list free virtual tours of museums and attractions as well as other educational activities that will bring a little bit of the world to your family while you stay at home.
We recommend you visit these pages with your child.
We will update this list often. If you know of a helpful resource not included in this list, please email us at info@languagekids.com
Free Virtual Museum & Attraction Tours and Educational Sites
- Road Trip From Home: Virtual Road Trips – Courtesy of superstar Girl Scout Skylar (Thank you so much for sharing this resource with us!)
- Africam – Live webcams from Africa’s wildlife
- Alaska Zoo – Polar bear cam
- Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument – Texas
- American Dairy Association
- Ancient city of Rome virtual tour – University of Reading
- Anne Frank House Virtual Tour
- Appalachian National Scenic Trail virtual tour
- Atlanta Zoo Panda Cam
- Baltimore National Aquarium virtual tour
- Berlin Philarmonic Digital Concert Hall
- Boston Children’s Museum
- Buckingham Palace
- California Science Center
- Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
- Chapultepec Castle virtual tour (Mexico City)
- Chatsworth Farm virtual tours – Alberta, Canada
- Chattanooga Ballet
- Chattanooga Zoo web cams
- Chicago Children’s Museum
- Children’s Museum of Houston
- Children’s Museum of South Dakota
- Cincinnati Museum Center
- Cincinnati Zoo
- Clearwater Marine Aquarium – Dolphin Cam
- Colonial Williambsburg
- Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
- Creative Discovery Museum
- Discovering Ancient Egypt
- Dublin Zoo web cams (Ireland)
- Edinburgh Zoo – Koala cam
- Eiffel Tower virtual tour
- Ellis Island interactive tour
- Ellis Island Part of Statue of Liberty National Monument
- Explore.org live cams
- Farm Food 360 virtual tours
- Field Museum (Chicago)
- Florida Public Archeology Network
- Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation – online tours
- Frida Kahlo Museum (Mexico City)
- Georgia Aquarium web cams
- Glazer Children’s Museum
- Grand Canyon National Park
- Great Pyramids of Egypt – virtual tour
- Great Wall of China 360 virtual tour
- Great Wall of China virtual tour
- Guggenheim Museum
- Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and Arts
- Houston Zoo web cams
- Indiana Dunes National Park
- Jungle Island
- Kansas City Zoo web cams
- Kohl Children’s Museum
- Liberty Science Center – live streams
- Lincoln Home Historic Site – virtual tour
- London’s National Theatre
- Louisville Zoo
- Marine traffic trends around the world (mind blowing!)
- Minnesota Children’s Museum
- Monterey Bay Aquarium
- Montezuma Castle virtual tour
- Mount Everest panoramic views
- Mount Rainier
- Mount Rushmore virtual tour
- Mount Vernon
- Musee d’Orsay (Paris, France)
- NASA Missions Operations Room
- NASCAR Hall of Fame
- National Children’s Museum
- National History Museum virtual tours (London)
- National Aquarium live streams -Washington
- National Gallery of Art
- National Museum of Australia
- National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Seoul)
- New York City Interactive Map
- Oregon Caves National Monument & Preserve
- Pacific Science Center
- Paris Opera
- Petersen Automotive Museum
- Pretend City Children’s Museum
- Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam)
- Sao Paolo Museum of Art (Brazil)
- Seattle Aquarium virtual tour
- Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
- Smithsonian Museums – online events
- Statue of Liberty virtual tour
- The Academy of Natural Sciences – Drexel University
- The Strong National Museum of Play
- The British Museum
- The Canals of Venice virtual tour
- The Children’s Theatre of Cincinnati
- The Kennedy Center – Digital Stage
- The Louvre Museum
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City)
- Thomas Edison National Historical Park
- Tokyo Fuji Art Museum (Tokyo)
- Tumacacori National Historical Park – Arizona
- Uffizi Gallery (Florence)
- Yellowstone virtual tour
- Google Arts and Culture pages are an amazing resource where you can find virtual tours, videos and much more.
- Google Earth, the world’s most detailed globe, is anotehr incredible resource your children will LOVE!
- CyArk offer an amazing collection of virtual 3-D tours of some of the most amazing places on earth, from Rapa Nui to Mount Rush National Memorial.
