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    Museo Galileo

    An awesome virtual tour you might want to check out is the one offered by the Museo Galileo. Located in the city of Florence, the museum houses some of the most important instruments in scientific history. Virtual tours of the museum might actually be the best way to see the museum as it can be a bit tricky to actually physically visit the place. It is a pretty small building and tends to be very popular over the summer months.

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    Museum of Mines of Mercury

    This tour takes you around the Museum of Mines of Mercury Monte Amiata in Santa Fiora, Italy. View the exhibits and mock-ups from the history of mining from the comfort of your own home.

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    German Oceanographic Museum

    Also brought to you with the help of Google, this virtual tour is pretty cool too. Take a tour of the German Oceanographic Museum without ever having to get off your backside. Physically located in Stralsund, Germany, the museum is jam-packed full of exhibits about the wonders of the deep. This really is an interesting virtual tour if you cannot leave the house for whatever reason.

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    Museum of Natural Sciences

    An awesome virtual tour of a science and tech museum comes as the courtesy of The Museum of Natural Sciences in Belgium. Containing tons of Dinosaurs and other interesting scientific exhibits, this virtual tour is definitely worth a gander.Like the NHM in London, this tour was partially developed with the help of Google's Cultural Institute.

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    Belgium Institut royal des sciences naturelles de Belgique Natural history museums Science museums Exhibitions
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    Natural History Museum

    If you love all things natural history, you might want to take a virtual tour of the world-renowned Natural History Museum (NHM) in London. Developed in part by Google, the tour is a great, and interesting way to tour the museum if making the trip is difficult. Sadly "Dippy" the Diplodocus is no longer in residence, but the virtual tour is still very impressive indeed.

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    National Museum of Computing

    If computer history is more your bag, then you might want to take the National Museum of Computing's virtual tour. Take a tour of the history of the ongoing development of computing from, fittingly, your own computer.The museum is home to the world's largest collection of working historic computers and follows this world-changing tech's history from the 1940s to the present day.

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    Computers Belgique History Exhibitions
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    Oxford University's History of Science Museum

    A world-class museum that offers virtual tours is Oxford University's History of Science Museum. The tour lets you explore their magnificent exhibits in ultimate comfort -- your own sofa.You'll get to explore their fantastic exhibits and artifacts of some of the most important scientific discoveries in science history. The museum, ever ahead of the times, has been offering virtual tours since 1995, so you can trust the quality of it today.

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    National Museum of Natural History

    Washington D.C.'s world-class National Museum of Natural History is one great museum that offers an amazing virtual tour. It is one of the most popular museums in the world, and its virtual tour lets you see its amazing exhibits from the comfort of your own home.While not quite the same as actually visiting it for yourself, their virtual tour takes you on a 360-degree tour around the museum, starting at its rotunda. Some of the highlights include the Hall of Mammals, Insect Zoo, and its Dinosaurs and Hall of Palaeobiology.One real benefit of virtual tours like this is the ability to see some of their great past exhibits that are now long gone.

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    Musei Villa Torlonia

    The Casino Nobile, which is already a “museum” from an architectural and decorative standpoint, contains a small but excellent museum devoted to pieces of statuary from the Torlonia collection found in the Villa (much of the collection still belongs to the family and is conserved in the palace in Via della Lungara) and several chance finds that have enabled a further strand of the Villa’s history to be added to the collection.The pieces displayed give a close idea of how the Torlonia family, in particular Giovanni (1756–1829) and his son Alessandro (1800–80) were for almost a century leading figures in the field of art collecting, a practice that had originated in at least the fifteenth century when distinguished families in Rome began to adorn their residences with fine works of art and furnishings. The works exhibited are not all from the same provenance: they were in part produced by Bartolomeo Cavaceppi, a noted eighteenth-century sculptor, restorer and antiques dealer, following Giovanni Torlonia’s purchase in 1800 of all the works in Cavaceppi’s studio; others come from finds on the properties belonging to the family; and yet others are pieces of the Villa’s furniture that managed to survive various spoliations. This nucleus of works was added to following a sensational discovery of several artworks in the basement of the Theatre in 1997. These were originally displayed in the principal palace but were removed from there at an unknown time and for an unknown reason. The discovery was of three large plaster reliefs by Antonio Canova, a woman’s head in the style of Michelangelo, several pieces of furniture from the Villa’s demolished chapel, and a splendid marble pediment taken from the tomb of Claudia Semne on Via Appia Antica. The final section of the museum is the reconstructed Bedchamber of Giovanni Torlonia (1872–1938), with the pieces of furniture that were used by Benito Mussolini during the period he resided in the Villa (1925–43).

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    Virtuelle Fondation Monet

    The House of Claude Monet , located in Giverny , Normandy (near Ile-de- France), for a virtual visit of the place as if you were there. The opportunity to discover the place where the author of the Water Lilies lived , before going there once the confinement ended and venturing into the famous gardens of the artist, immortalized in numerous works, spearheads of the impressionist movement. Claude Monet lived there between 1883 and 1926, or forty-three years. True passionate about gardening and colors, the artist conceived " his flower garden and his water garden like real works ". By walking in his garden and in his house, even virtually, you have the opportunity to always feel " the atmosphere that reigned in the master of impressionism " and to marvel "in front of the flower arrangements and in front of the water lilies who were his most fruitful sources of inspiration

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    Homes Monet Claude 1840-1926 France -- Giverny Fondation Claude Monet à Giverny
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