It seems all that anyone can talk about in London this week is the tube strike. And can you blame us? Not only will it take hours to get to work, sitting in traffic (if you are lucky enough to be sitting) but it is seriously cramping our museum social style! But fear not! Even if you have had to cancel your plans to trek home on foot, you don't have to miss out. We've assembled a list of amazing online tours, galleries, exhibitions and archives that all you to experience all the wonder of museums without even leaving your bus seat:
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| You might be here, but you could be in a quiet gallery via your smartphone. |
- Investigate the Great Train Robbery with the British Postal Museum- http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/exhibit/the-great-train-robbery/QQZcgLhm
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| Tate Audio Archive |
- Take a digital tour of the British Museum’s collections from Asia to the Americas to the Middle East- https://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/online_tours.aspx
- Explore the Foundling Museum’s ‘Threads of Feeling’ exhibition from their textile archive- http://www.threadsoffeeling.com/
- Click through the British Library’s online gallery of early photography from Victorian Britain - http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/earlyphotos/index.html or the Evanion Collection of Victorian Ephemera- http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/evancoll/index.html
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| Victorian trade card for a 'pyrotechnis' |
- Learn about history of Britain in the Caribbean using images and original documents at the National Archives- http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/caribbeanhistory/
- Stroll through Oxford for a tour of its scientific history, without giving up your seat- http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/features/walk/
- Brush up on your visual vocabulary as the Design Museum takes you through a Century of Chairs- http://designmuseum.org/exhibitions/online/a-century-of-chairs
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| Mod style from the Design Museum |
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