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Interactive Art History

By providing links to virtual tours and 360° panoramas of monuments and museums, we encourage users to indulge in their exploratory nature, and experience the history of art as it exists beyond the still image.

Virtual Tours & 360° Panoramas of Historical Monuments

Click on a period or culture below. View tours in 'Fullscreen' mode for best results.

Featured Virtual Tours & 360° Panoramas

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Virtual Tours of Museums	Museum Image Databases

USA	USA
UK	UK
Europe	Europe

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Full List of 360 Panoramas and Virtual Tours

To search by period or culture, use the table of contents at the top of this page.

Ancient:

Paleolithic

: Virtual Tour of the Entire Cave Complex

Neolithic

England

: 360 Panorama

France

Gavrinis and Gulf de Morbihan Megaliths

: Video

: 360 Panorama

Megalithic Brittany

: 360 Panorama

2: 360 Panorama

: 360 Panorama

: 360 Panorama of Interior

Megalithic Southwestern France

: 360 Panorama

Necropolis of la Boixe, Vervant

: 360 Panorama

: 360 Panorama of Exterior

: 360 Panorama of Interior

Ireland

Passage Tombs

: 360 Panorama of Exterior & Evirons

Tour of Entire Complex. Click on red spirals to move to next panorama.

: 360 Panorama of Exterior and Kerbstones

: Virtual Tour of Interior and Exterior

Click on red spirals to move to next panorama.

: Tour of

Entire Complex. Click on red spirals to move to next panorama.

: 360 Panoramic Aerial View of Complex

: Tour of Entire Complex. Click on red

spirals to move to next panorama.

: Tour Throughout Interior, Exterior, and Environs.

Click on red spirals to move to next panorama.

: Tour of

Entire Complex. Click on red spirals to move to next panorama.

Portal Tombs (Dolmens)

: 360 Panorama

: 360 Panoramas. Click on red spirals

to move to next panorama.

: 360 Panorama

Malta

Ggantija megalithic temple, Xaghra, Gozo

Ħaġar megalithic temple complex, Il-Qrendi

: Click doorways to move to

the next panorama

Mnajdra megalithic temple complex, Il-Qrendi

Tarxien megalithic temple complex, Tarxien

Palestine

: Virtual Tour of 3D Reconstruction of Jericho

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Mesopotamian and Persian

Assyrian

: 360 Panorama

Achaemenid

Persepolis, Iran

: 360 Panorama

Sasanian

Bishapur, Iran

: 360 Panorama

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Egyptian

: 360 Aerial Panorama. Click on helicopter and hiker icons

to change views.

: Interactive Tour Inside, Outside, and Around the Pyramids.

Click “Launch Interactive” to begin, choose a building to explore, and click

“Inside________ 360” to view and wander through interiors and exteriors.

: 360 Panorama

: 360 Panorama of Interior

: Interactive Tour through the Rooms

of the Temple

: 360 Panoramas and Interactive Tours of Various Temples

: Interactive Tour Inside, Outside, and Around the Valley

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Aegean

Minoan

'Palace of King Minos,' Knossos, Crete

: 360 Panorama

Thera, Akroteri

now in National Archaeological Museum of Athens

Mycenaean

Mycenae, Greece

(May require QuickTime 7)

: 360 View of Entrance

: 360 View of Interior

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Greek and Hellenistic

Etruscan

: Interactive Tour Inside, Outside, and Around

: 360 Panorama

Greek

Athenian Acropolis and Environs, Athens, Greece

: contains labels and multiple viewpoints

: 360 Panorama

: 360 Panorama of East Façade

: 360 Panorama of Naos (Interior)

: 360 Panorama showing side view of

Chryselephantine statue of Athena

: 360 Panorama

: Virtual Tour (Requires download of App)

: 360 Panorama

Athenian Agora, Athens, Greece

: 360 Panorama

Delphi, Greece

: 360 Panorama

Sicily

: 360 Panorama

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Roman

Croatia

, ca. AD 298-306: 360: Panorama and Virtual Tour

Rome

: 360 Panorama

: 360 View of the Interior of the Arch

360 Panorama and Virtual Tour

360 Panorama

: Virtual Tour

Herculaneum, Italy

: 360 Panorama

Pompeii, Italy

: Virtual Tour of Entire Complex

: 360 Panorama

Middle-East

: 360 Panorama of Exterior and Interior

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Late Antique & Medieval:

Early Christian & Byzantine

Greece

360 Panorama of Interior

Italy

Ravenna

: 360 Panorama of Interior

: 360 Panorama of Main Vessel

: 360 Panorama of Exterior

: 360 Panorama of Ambulatory

: 360 Panorama of Interior from the Apse

360 Panorama of Interior from the Nave

: 360 Panorama of Interior from the Nave

Rome

: 360 Panorama of Interior

360 Panorama of Interior from Center

: 360 Panoramas of Each Room

: 360 Panorama of Interior

360 Panorama of Interior

: Virtual Tour

Turkey

: 360 Panorama

Virtual Tour of Entire complex (click the yellow arrows to move from room to room)

: 360 Panorama

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Germanic & Insular

Medieval Ireland

: 360 Panorama

from the North

: 360 Panorama

from the West

: 360 Panorama

Medieval Scandinavia

: 360 Panorama of Exterior

: 360 Panorama of Interior

: 360 Panorama

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Romanesque

Baptistery of San Giovanni, Florence, Italy

La Madeleine, Vezelay, France

Pisa Cathedral, Pisa, Italy

Sant'Ambrogio, Milan, Italy

Saint-Sernin, Toulouse, France

Speyer Cathedral, Speyer, Germany

: 360 Panorama

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Gothic

Gothic England

Canterbury Cathedral

: 360 Panorama and Virtual Tour

Durham Cathedral

: Exterior View of Cloister

: Exterior View of North Flank

: Interior View of Chapel of the Nine Altars

Oxford

: Virtual Tour of the Campus,

Inside and Outside of Buildings

Salisbury Cathedral

: 360 Panorama

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Gothic France

Amiens Cathedral

Amiens Cathedral:

Chartres Cathedral

Chartres Cathedral:  

Cathedral of Saint-Jean, Lyon:

Notre-Dame Cathedral, Paris

Notre-Dame Cathedral, Reims

Saint Denis

Royal Abbey of Saint Denis, Paris:  

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Gothic Italy

Milan Cathedral

: Facade

: Interior, transept

: Interior, Nave

: On the Roof

Orvieto Cathedral

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Early Modern:

Renaissance

Florence, Italy

Rome, Italy

: 360 Panorama of Exterior

: 360 Panorama of the Interior

: Open Aerial Panorama of the City

: 360 Panorama of the Interior

: Virtual Tour of the Interior Rooms

: Self Guided Virtual Tour of the Entire City, powered by Google Earth

Spain

: 360 Panorama of Portal

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Baroque

England

: 360 Panorama of Exterior

France

: 360 Panorama

: Tour of Entire Palace

Italy

: 360 Panorama of Nave

: Virtual Tour of Entire Interior

: 360 Panorama of Exterior Complex

Neoclassical

: 360 Panorama of Interior

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Modern:

Modern

Antonio Gaudi

: 360 Panorama of Exterior

: 360 Panorama

Frank Lloyd Wright

: Virtual Tour and Audio Guide of Entire House

Le Corbusier

: 360 Panorama

Joern Utzon

: 360 Panorama

Postmodern

: 360 Panorama

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Non-Western:

African

: 360 Panorama

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Islamic

Iran

: 360 Panorama of Courtyard

: 360 Panorama of Interior

: 360 Panorama of Exterior Entry

Spain

: Virtual Tour of Entire Complex

Palace of the Lions, Alhambra, Granada

: 360 Panorama

Syria

: 360 Panorama of Interior Courtyard

Turkey

: 360 Panorama of Exterior

: 360 Panorama of Interior

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Mesoamerican

Mayan

: 360 Panorama

Chichen Itza, Mexico

: Click on helicopter and hiker icons to change views

: 360 Panorama

Palenque, Mexico

: 360 Panorama

: 360 Panorama, View 2

: 360 Panorama

Teotihuacan, Mexico

: 360 Panorama

Tikal, Guatemala

: Click on helicopter and hiker icons to change views

Uxmal, Mexico

: 360 Panorama

Inka

: Aerial Panorama of Complex. Click on helicopter and hiker icons to change views.

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Native American

Desert Archaic Culture, Barrier Canyon Style

: 360 Panorama

Basketmaker Culture (Pre-Ancestral Puebloan)

: 360 Panorama

Fremont Culture

: 360 Panorama

Ancestral Puebloan

: 360 Panorama

Paiute

: 360 Panorama

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Oceanic

: 360 Panorama

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Asian:

China

Army of the First Emperor of Qin (Terracotta Warriors)

: 360 Panorama

Fengxian Temple, Longmen Caves, Luoyang, China: 360 Panorama

: 360 Panorama

Suzhou Hanshan Temple, Suzhou, China, 6th century AD

: 360 Panorama

(16th century): 360 Panorama

Lion Grove Garden, Suzhou, China

: 360 Panorama

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India

Ajanta Caves

: 360 Panorama

Karle, Ellora Caves, Buddhist Complex

: 360 Panorama of Interior

: 360 Panorama

Khajuraho Temple Complex, Kharjuraho

: 360 Panorama

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Japan

Horyuji Temple, Ikaruga, Nara Prefecture

: 360 Panorama

Southeast Asia

Dambulla Cave Temple, Sri Lanka

: 360 Panorama

Borobudur, Java, Indonesia

: 360 Panorama

Angkor, Cambodia

: 360 Panorama

Ayutthaya, Thailand

: 360 Panorama

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Virtual Tours of Museums:

USA

: Virtual Tour (Click on the map)

: Virtual Tour

Europe

Germany

: Virtual Tour

Greece

The National Archaeological Museum, Athens

View 1: at Thera, Akroteri

View 2:

View 3:

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View 9:

Italy

: Virtual Tour

: 360 Panorama

Malta

, Malta

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Museum Image Databases:

USA

, Philadelphia

, Washington DC

, New York

: One of the largest digital collections of Latino art, culture, and history. A Google Arts and Culture collection.

England

, London

Europe

, Madrid, Spain

, Helsinki, Finland: Google Art Project

, Rome, Italy: Google Art Project

: An interactive timeline that contains over 2,000 digitized documents and resources related to Picasso's painting Guernica.

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