However, others managed to handle these difficult times and switched to online. This year has been a tough one not only because of these abrupt changes but because of the effects they’ve had on people’s mental health. Not being able to travel, to meet with your friends, and needing to spend so much time inside drained some people of energy and positivity. Mental health problems are on the rise, but so are the solutions that can help people manage these times successfully.

Even though we are not allowed to travel as we did before, there are new options available. You can explore art museums, fairs, and events from the comfort of your own home. Think about the most popular museums and places and the huge queue from the entrance. Now you don’t have to wait in the queue or travel to enjoy them because a new door has opened.

We will share 8 virtual museum tours and interesting events you can attend while lounging comfortably on your couch.

1. Machu Picchu, Peru

You have probably heard about Machu Picchu and the mysteries that surround it. Built in the 15th century, this Inca citadel was later abandoned. Maybe one of the most astonishing things about Machu Picchu is the fact that it is located on a 2430-meter mountain range, in the Andes Mountains.

Taking into consideration the fact that the walls and buildings were built without mortar and they are arranged according to astronomical principles, Machu Picchu became an international attraction. More than 2,500 visitors a day and more than half a million annually were visiting this Inca citadel until 2020.

Now, you can explore the astonishing beauty of Machu Picchu and admire the panoramic views online. This UNESCO Heritage Site can be visited in 360-degree views. During this tour, you will also find out more about its history and mysteries because the voice of a narrator will tell you the story of this Inca settlement.

2. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

Who has not heard about the famous Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, known for cutting his ear and his unmistakable painting style? He painted over 2,000 artworks, most of them dating from the last two years of his life. Some of these famous paintings can be admired at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Here you can find out more about his life, relationship with his brother Theo, and the most used techniques in painting.

Van Gogh Museum can be explored from the comfort of your home. It represents the largest collection of artworks by this tragic painter and you can get the chance to see over 700 paintings and drawings, as well as over 750 personal letters.

3. Great Wall of China

The Great Wall of China is one of the wonders you must see at least once in your life. These incredible artworks created by humans in secluded and inaccessible places arouse your admiration for the human race. However, the Great Wall of China is threatened by climate change and people are trying to preserve it by offering virtual tours. If you head straight to Google’s project Heritage on the Edge and you can explore it in 3D.

4. The Louvre, Paris

We can all remember those endless and discouraging queues in front of the Louvre. It is one of the most famous and visited museums in the world, every year seeing millions of international visitors. However, due to the current restrictions, the Louvre is closed for visitors. But, exploring it through a virtual tour is now possible. You can explore Egyptian artifacts, admire DaVinci’s Mona Lisa, the statue of Venus de Milo, the Code of Hammurabi, and more than 30,000 individual artworks.

5. Guggenheim Museum, New York City

On the list of the most visited and popular museums of the world, the Guggenheim Museum ranks near the Louvre. The architecture of the museum is a monument to modernism that houses art collections and special exhibitions. Guggenheim Museum in New York is a must-see for every age, having lots of exhibitions and galleries to admire, but also amazing architecture, both inside and outside the building. Here you can see artworks by Pablo Picasso, Henri Rousseau, or Paul Cezanne.

6. Georgia Aquarium, Atlanta

Georgia Aquarium is one of the most amazing aquariums in the world. In fact, it is the largest aquarium in the western world, being the only institution outside Asia that houses whale sharks. You can explore the amazing underwater life with a live tour of the aquarium. It has seven major galleries you can visit and learn more about thousands of animals and species you can now see virtually.

7. The Broad, Los Angeles

The Broad is a contemporary art museum in Los Angeles that houses over 200 artworks of the Broad’s collection. Even though the museum generally offers free admission to its galleries, it’s now closed due to the current state of the world. However, you can virtually explore the galleries of The Broad museum, and its most popular room, the Infinite Mirrored Room of Yayoi Kusama. Now you can spend all day in the twinkling abyss of the infinite.

8. A Trip to Mars

Even though real trips to Mars are not available, NASA has teamed up with Google to offer people all over the world a virtual tour to Mars. The Red Planet has always aroused humanity’s interest and now you can explore it in a 3D Virtual Tour and find out more about its surface and history. Thanks to technology, you can explore outer space without leaving your home. How wonderful is this?

Conclusion

The world has changed, and it will continue to evolve in ways we cannot even imagine. For the moment, there are travel restrictions. And for people who love exploring new places and meeting new cultures, this is a major drawback and disappointment. However, to stop the spread of the virus, these restrictions are necessary.

Choosing to see the full part of the glass is important during these times, and it can foster more positive experiences. Virtual tours can be a saving option, especially because you can choose what iconic and historical place you want to explore. You can choose from a wide variety of historical sites, museums, aquariums, and iconic places that can be explored for free, from the comfort of your own home. Give it a try — start exploring and visiting virtually.

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By Megan Kaplon

Spring on the East Coast—that wet, hopeful season—often begins as Bostonians are still removing the final dregs of winter from their driveways. As the season matures, it quickly transitions into a lush period of growth and greenery as New Yorkers exchange boots for sandals, the tulips bloom in Central Park and the cherry trees blossom around the Jefferson Memorial in Washington. Celebrate spring on the East Coast with these top 15 exhibits in galleries and museums.

New York City

Subodh Gupta, Seven Billion Light Years

Hauser & Wirth, 18th Street
Feb. 10 – April 25
A painter and sculptor who lives and works in New Delhi, Subodh Gupta uses objects he gets from junkyards and antiques markets in his home country to inspire and build his art. The resulting creations celebrate Gupta’s small-town upbringing and explore the realities of Indian life. This exhibition will be his second at a New York location of Hauser & Wirth.
hauserwirth.com

Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian: Infinite Possibility. Mirror Works and Drawings
The Guggenheim Museum
March 13 – June 3
Farmanfarmaian’s geometric designs find their roots in Islamic art. The prolific Iranian artist, now 90, is most famous for her mirror mosaics and mirror-reverse glass painting; however, the Infinite Possibility collection also features a number of her sketches and drawings, providing a unique look at this extraordinary artist.
guggenheim.org

Inaugural Exhibition

The Whitney Museum of American Art
Starting May 1
The Whitney reopens for the first time this spring since moving to its new 220,000-square-foot, Renzo Piano-designed building in the Meatpacking District. The museum’s inaugural exhibition promises to be the largest and most comprehensive display to date of the museum’s vast permanent collection of 20th and 21st century art.
whitney.org

Revolution of the Eye: Modern Art and the Birth of American Television
The Jewish Museum
May 1 – Sept. 15
This exhibit provides a look at the way avant-garde art shaped the look of television in the 1950s and ’60s with works by Saul Bass, Alexander Calder, Andy Warhol and more, as well as memorabilia and clips from iconic films and television shows, including Batman, The Ed Sullivan Show and The Twilight Zone.
thejewishmuseum.org

China: Through the Looking Glass

Metropolitan Museum of Art
May 7 – Aug. 16
Housed in the Met’s Chinese Galleries and Anna Wintour Costume Center, this exhibit showcases Chinese high fashion and costumes, as well as paintings, decorative arts, porcelains and films in an exploration of Chinese imagery from the 1700s to the present.
metmuseum.org

Mark Reynolds
Pierogi Gallery
June 5 – July 5
Artist Mark Reynolds’ geometric drawings get their dizzying effect from the mathematical relations he uses to build the images. He sometimes derives the ratios in his drawings from nature or music, and he uses geometry to create intricate, weblike drawings that captivate the observer.
pierogi2000.com

Greater Boston

Mark Rothko’s Harvard Murals
Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA
Through July 26
On display at the new Harvard Art Museums, this exhibit features a camera projector system that helps restore the appearance of Rothko’s murals to how they looked when originally painted. (The colors faded while the murals were on display in a penthouse faculty dining room of Harvard’s Holyoke Center in the ’60s and ’70s.)
harvardartmuseums.org

Audacious: The Fine Art of Wood from the Montalto Bohlen Collection
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
Feb. 21 – June 21
Nearly 100 diverse wood pieces from around the world come together for this exhibit of contemporary wood art at the Peabody Essex Museum. Shaped as vessels, bowls and vases or entirely abstract, the works in this exhibit showcase the versatility of wood as a medium.
pem.org

Herb Ritts
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
March 14 – Nov. 8
In 2007, the Herb Ritts Foundation donated $2.5 million to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, to build the first gallery at the museum dedicated solely to photography. This spring, the Herb Ritts and Clementine Brown Galleries at the museum will be filled with Ritts’ work, including many pieces from the 1996 MFA exhibit Herb Ritts: Work, which was one of the most popular exhibitions at the museum to date. It will also showcase other images from the late fashion photographer’s vast body of work.
mfa.org

Christina Zwart
Boston Sculptors Gallery
April 1 – May 3
Zwart, a native of Wayland, Massachusetts, challenges perceptions of reality with her indoor and outdoor installations. Through multiplication and manipulation, Zwart, who got her start as a window-display artist, dislodges familiar objects from our associations and gives them an entirely new—and sometimes bizarre—existence.
bostonsculptors.com

Washington

O’Keeffe and Friends: Dialogues with Nature
The Phillips Collection
Through May 31
Georgia O’Keeffe’s Jack-in-the-Pulpit No. IV and Jack-in-the-Pulpit No. VI are on display alongside landscapes and other paintings from American modernists of the early 1900s, including Alvin Langdon Coburn, Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley and John Marin, who contemplate and celebrate elements of nature.
phillipscollection.org

Elaine de Kooning: Portraits
National Portrait Gallery
March 13 – Jan. 10, 2016
Abstract expressionist portraitist and painter Elaine de Kooning is best known for her portrayals of men, including her husband, painter Willem De Kooning; critic Harold Rosenberg; poets Frank O’Hara and Allen Ginsberg; and President John F. Kennedy, all of which will be on display in this curated exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery.
nationalportraitgallery.org

Unraveling Identity: Our Textiles, Our Stories
The Textile Museum at the George Washington University Museum
March 21 – Aug. 24
The largest exhibition in The Textile Museum’s history, Unraveling Identity will feature more than 100 pieces spanning 3,000 years and five continents. Clothing, decorative pieces, housewares and more explore culture, politics and social identity through textiles.
museum.gwu.edu

Jason Wright
LongView Gallery
May 8 – June 7
Wright, a graduate of the Corcoran College of Art and Design, got his first taste of art illustrating skateboards at home in Hawaii and is now a seasoned artist known for his geometric paintings. Wright’s spring show at LongView, “VERSUS,” will feature two versions of each painting, one in black and gray and another in color. His intention is to show how the same scene in different colors evokes different feelings from the viewer.
longviewgallerydc.com

Organic Matters—Women to Watch
National Museum of Women in the Arts
June 5 – Sept. 13
The fourth installment of NMWA’s Women to Watch series features 13 up-and-coming female artists from all over the country and the world. Each of the pieces feature elements of this year’s theme: imagery and materials from the natural world.
nmwa.org

+10 Other notable exhibits scattered across the East Coast

The Critique of Reason: Romantic Art, 1760-1860
March 6 – July 26
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
The Yale University Art Gallery and Yale Center for British Art team up to present works that celebrate the richness and range of Yale’s Romantic pieces.
artgallery.yale.edu

Elliott Erwitt: Dog Dogs
March 7 – May 24
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware
A collection of memorable canine photographs taken by Erwitt in various locations around the world between 1946 and 2004.
delart.org

Halston and Warhol: Silver and Suede
March 7 – June 14
Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina
This exhibit unites the work of Andy Warhol and Roy Halston Frowick to explore the art and fashion of the ’60s and ’70s.
mintmuseum.org

Rinehart’s Studio: Rough Stone to Living Marble
March 29 – August 30
The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland
Explore the striking marble sculptors of 19th-century artist and Maryland native William Henry Rinehart.
thewalters.org

Young Contemporaries: Annual Student Exhibition
April 4 – May 2
Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Charleston, South Carolina
The brightest stars of the College of Charleston’s School of the Arts show off their work in this annual exhibition.
halsey.cofc.edu

Robert Lobe: In the Forest of Drawn Metal
April 11 – January 17, 2016
Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, New Jersey
Lobe’s textured and patinated aluminum wall reliefs are made by hammering sheets of aluminum over natural forms.
groundsforsculpture.org

Drawing Ambience: Alvin Boyarsky and the Architectural Association
April 24 – August 2
RISD Museum, Providence, Rhode Island
Boyarsky assembled this collection of drawings during his time as chairman of the Architectural Association. It includes work by some of the most prominent architects and artists of the late 20th Century.
risdmuseum.org

Mark Dion, Judy Pfaff, Fred Wilson: The Order of Things
May 16 – August 3
The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Three new large-scale installations, each created specifically for the Barnes Foundation, will be displayed in this three-month-long exhibit.
barnesfoundation.org

Eric Standley: In Depth
May 21 – August 16
Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, Virginia
Revel in the intricate craft required to bring to life Standley’s impossibly detailed paper sculptures.
virginiamoca.org

Japanese Tattoo: Perseverance, Art, and Tradition
May 30 – September 27
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia
The work of seven internationally acclaimed tattoo artists, eachof whom finds inspiration in the Japanese tradition of tattooing, displays alongside tools and relief carvings, as well as a recreated Shinto shrine.
vmfa.museum

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