The Hermitage in St. Petersburg stretches majestically along the banks of the Neva. The interior of the famous museum is known to hold true treasures. Those who want to get an impression no longer have to be on site, but can wander through the rooms online with their smartphone or tablet and admire the works of art from artists such as Kandinsky, Chagall or Picasso. Take a look around the Hermitage at your leisure, whenever and wherever you like. For example, in the Small Throne Room of Peter the Great with its red and gold decorated walls.
You can really learn a lot on the website of the Russian Museum, which is also located in St. Petersburg. In addition to virtual tours and walking tours, it offers online lectures and courses that require prior registration. If you have VR glasses, put them on - you will feel like you are in the middle of the action.
Touring the museum with VR glasses
The VR glasses are also worthwhile for many other museum websites. A virtual tour of the Russian capital offers many online events on art topics for adults and children at the Pushkin Museum in Moscow. Here, too, art fans can take a relaxed stroll through the halls online and, if they wish, get comprehensive information - even about the smallest coin in the display case.
Let’s take a look at our neighbouring country: The Warsaw National Museum offers its virtual visitors a special treat. To the sound of classical music, they can take a 3D tour through the halls and listen to short explanations of the paintings in Polish. An eye-catcher and not to be missed: the huge painting of Jan Matejko's "Battle of Grunwald" on a canvas of almost 40 square metres.
3D animations of precious treasures
With just a few clicks, art lovers can travel 5,000 kilometres to Cairo, where the media hub of the Egyptian Museum invites them to browse. It offers sensational 3D animations, 360-degree images and films, for example of the famous Tutankhamun collection. With explanations in Arabic and English - there is also something for children. By the way, you can't get lost in a virtual museum - the map is always just a click away.
Let’s take a short detour to Italy. Without crowds of tourists or queues at the entrance, the Uffizi Gallery in Florence has a very special charm. And in the Boboli Garden at the back, exhausted visitors can soak up the tranquillity during an online stroll: They can enjoy the bizarre Buontalenti grotto all to themselves - an unforgettable experience, also in 360-degree view.
Google Arts & Culture takes you to works of art across the world
The Doge's Palace in Venice takes a different approach. Like many other museums around the world, it displays its treasures via Google Arts & Culture. This web application works similarly to Google Streetview: Tours plus high-resolution photos with lots of additional info and up-to-date tips.
The museums of the world offer culture and knowledge in compact form and free of charge on your smartphone. Make your family and friends aware of the virtual offer of museums in your home country. Show and share with them artworks that really impress you. With Ortel Mobile's new and even more extensive tariffs (e.g., the "Small World XL" tariff that comes with a data volume of 15 GB, the EU flat rate and 1,000 free minutes to 20 non-European countries), you can amaze your loved ones in seconds. Whether in Warsaw, Moscow, Cairo, Sofia or Florence.
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