Here are some links to online content reposted from the museum computer network (MCN). There are, of course, many more links but it is a good start. My own favorite additions:

A 12 part class on the history of photography from the George Eastman House: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeMnpYoDzLk

The history of printing with Richard Benson following his book: The Printed Picture. http://printedpicture.artgallery.yale.edu/

Versailles on Paper from the Graphic Arts Collection:  https://library.princeton.edu/versailles/

How to make an etching: https://www.moma.org/multimedia/video/151/938

PORTALS

• Google Arts & Culture: Tours of 500 of the world’s most famous museums
• Heritage on the Edge: A project of Google Arts & Culture
• Europeana: 50,000,000 European works of art, books, music, and more
• Smithsonian Open Access: Search 2.8 million images and 3D Models
• ArtUK: Art collections from 3,200 UK organizations
• Mexican Ministry of Culture: Short films, books, radio, paintings, from all cultural orgs
• Memorica: Open access Mexican culture content portal
• China’s National Cultural Heritage Administration: Virtual portal of 100 institutions
• OpenGLAM: Aggregates 88 unique open collections
• NASA Image & Video Library: All NASA content is in the public domain
• DPLA: Digital Public Library of America
• MIMO: Musical Instrument Museums Online (64,000+ instruments)
• BioExplora: Natural science open collections portal (3D images, bio diversity)
• Archaeological Analytics: Archaeological Open Access Collections
• Digital Agnes: Canadian portal for curatorial research and online exhibitions
• English Heritage: Variety of mediums of British content (Podcasts, videos, etc.)
• Creative Commons: Aggregates all CC-licensed content and collections globally
• Wikimedia Commons: Over 20,000,000 open images
• Wikidata: “The Sum of all Paintings” metadata initiative via Wikimedia
• GLAM Portals Google Search: Courtesy of Mia Ridge (context on her blog)
• Open Culture Coloring Pages: 113 museum coloring books
• Global Museum: Portal for museum news, jobs, and resources
• Arte.tv: Cultural documentaries, films, and more.

VIRTUAL TOURS / ONLINE EXHIBITS

• Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford: Virtual Tour
• Dalí Theatre-Museum, Catalonia: Virtual Tour
• The Vatican: 360-degree Museum Tours
• The Palace Museum: The Forbidden City, China, 360-degree Virtual Tour
• Hallwyl Museum, Stockholm: VR Tour
• Byzantine and Christian Virtual Museum: Virtual Tour
• The Louvre, Paris: Virtual Tour
• The Hermitage, Russia: Virtual Tour (YouTube)
• Westminster Abbey, London: Virtual Tour
• The Science Museum, London: Shipping Galleries Virtual Tour
• Mexican National Institute of Anthropology & History:Virtual Tours (Flash)
• National Museum of Natural History, US: Virtual Tour
• National Archaeological Museum, Spain: Virtual Museum
• The Frick, Pittsburgh: Virtual tours, online collections, activities
• Cranbrook Art Museum, Michigan: Exhibit Virtual Tours
• American Battlefield Trust: 360-degree Battlefield Tours
• Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello: Virtual Tour
• George Washington’s Mount Vernon: Virtual Tours, timelines, etc.
• Yellowstone National Park, US: Virtual Tours
• Yosemite National Park, US: Virtual Tour

Online Exhibits

• Girl Museum: Online Exhibits
• Virtual Migration Museum: Interactive Online Experience / App
• JFK Library: “Moonshot” App and Online Interactive
• Virtual Museum of Canada: Virtual Exhibits and Cultural Content
• Museum of Ontario Archaeology: “History of Ste. Marie II” Online Exhibit
• Monterey Bay Aquarium: Animal Live Cams
• National Museum of Canada: Online Exhibitions
• Remembering Lincoln, Ford’s Theatre: Interactive online exhibit
• M Woods, Beijing, China: Experimental Online Exhibition
• Second Canvas Apps: 30 Museum Apps (Google Sheet)
• Reina Sofía Museum Radio: Audiovisual resources; an acoustic museum experience
• Smithsonian Latino Virtual Museum

E-LEARNING

• Smithsonian Learning Lab
• MoMA Learning
• Speed Art Museum: At-home art-making videos
• The Field Museum: The Brain Scoop (YouTube)
• North Carolina Museum of Art: Learn, (collections, videos, curriculum)
• Sketchfab: 3D Models (link goes to cultural-specific search)
• The Hammer: Contemporary Art programs, (YouTube)
• Royal Albert Memorial Museum: Exeter Time Trail (Interactive timeline)
• Les Fruits de Mer: Activities, books, films about Caribbean wildlife
• Museum of Early Trade and Crafts: Recipes, Games, Coloring Pages, etc.
• Museum Strathroy-Cardoc: Sydenham River Discovery online exhibit (Flash)
• Denver Art Museum: Artist videos
• Virginia Museum of History & Culture: Lecture series videos
• Discover XR: The Future of Social Media & Online Learning (YouTube)
• KaiXR: Free Museum VR Field Trips (no VR gear needed)
• HistoryView.org: Virtual Reality Tours

Created for Kids

• Tate: Tate Kids (Games and quizzes, videos, kids’ art, etc.)
• Metropolitan Museum of Art: MetKids
• Exploratorium: Science Experiment “Snacks”
• Shedd Aquarium: Sea Curious- Kid Questions, Animal Answers (YouTube)
• Glazer Children’s Museum: Online Activities
• Children’s Museum of South Dakota: Recipes for Play
• Suzhou Museum: Online Mini-Games
• Pittsburgh Children’s Museum: The MAKESHOP Show (Makerspace Blog)
• The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis: Museum at Home
• Long Island Children’s Museum: Play Outside Ideas
• Norton Simon Museum: Art Projects for Kids (scroll to section)
• Canadian Museum of Nature: Coloring Pages, Arctic, Garden, Dinosaurs
• National Museum of Australia: “Fun at Home” DIY activities
• Smarthistory: Source of history content for Khan Academy
• iCivics: Virtual games (free beginning with Covid-19)
• International Association of Children in Museums: Coronavirus Guide

ONLINE COLLECTIONS

• Rijksstudio: Remix collections from Rijksmuseum
• Naturalis: 40,000,000 natural science collections objects
• SMK Open: National Gallery of Denmark Collections
• Canadian Museum of History
• UK Postal Museum
• South West Collections, England
• Brooklands Museum, Surrey, UK (cars, motorcycles, aircraft)
• Open Access at the Met
• New York Archaeological Repository: Nearly 1,000,000 objects
• Cooper Hewitt, New York (historical and contemporary design)
• Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
• Albright-Knox, New York
• Corning Museum of Glass, New York
• The Henry Ford, Michigan
• Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University
• Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Virginia
• Akron Art Museum, Ohio
• Oakland Museum of California
• National Museum of African American History & Culture
• Chicago History Museum, Illinois
• Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (visual, performing, media arts)
• The Hammer, LA (contemporary art)
• The Walters, Baltimore

DIGITAL ARCHIVES & LIBRARIES

• US National Archives Catalog
• Library of Congress
• Trove: National Library of Australia images, books, newspapers, maps, etc.
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• Endangered Archives, British Library
• National Archives of Japan
• Amsterdam City Archive
• Louisiana Digital Library: 400,000+ digital items from archives, libraries, museums
• Internet Archive: The Wayback Machine, digitized film, books, music, etc.
• American Literature Portal, WikiSource
• English Literature Portal, WikiSource

ADDENDUM

Research on CLOVID’s Impact on Museums

• Colleen Dilenschneider: “How CLOVID-19 is Impacting Intentions to Visit Cultural Entities (DATA).”