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Italy's national "lock-down" need not stop us from exploring art and culture! There is a wealth of cultural and artistic resources we can thankfully still utilize online.  Although museums across Italy have had to shut their doors to help prevent the spread of Covid-2019, many collections remain open to the public and are free to "tour" online.  Here below is a list of some museums and collections to check out both in Siena, across Italy, and around the world...

Sienese Museums:

• The Foundation of Sienese Museums 
  

• Santa Maria della Scala - Siena 
  

• The Accademia dei Fisiocritici Museum of Natural History - Siena 
  

• Pinacoteca Nazionale di Siena (online catalog) 
  

• Museo delle Biccherne - State Archives - Siena 
  

• Archive of Siena’s Palio Banners conserved in the contrade Museums
  

• Palio consortium - Siena 
  

• And many more Siena resources online line through Google Arts & Culture (you can even walk through Siena’s streets virtually!: 
  

Italian Museums:

• Italian Grand Tour (Google Arts & Culture Portal) 
  

• Pinacoteca di Brera - Milan  

• Galleria degli Uffizi - Florence  (online collection)

• Galleria degli Uffizi - Florence (with Google) 

• Boboli Gardens- Florence (virutal tour)

• Boboili Gardens-Florence (Architecture, Botany, and Sculptures)

• Palazzo Vecchio - Florence

• Musei Vaticani - Rome 
  

• Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea - Rome 
  

• Ca’ Pesaro - Venice 
  

• Fondazione per l'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT- Torino 
  

• Museo del Novecento - Milan 
  

• Musei Capitolini -Rome 
  

...and many more Italian collections through Google Arts & Culture! 

International Museums:

• Museo Archeologico - Athens 
  

• Prado - Madrid 
  

• Paris Museums Digital Archive http://parismuseescollections.paris.fr/en

• Louvre - Paris 
  

• Museo D’Orsay - Paris 
  

• Pergamon Museum - Berlin 
  

• Van Gogh Museum - Amsterdam 
  

• Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam 
  

• Hermitage - Saint Petersburg

• British Museum - London 
  

• British Museum-London  virtual tour 
  

• Metropolitan Museum - New York(360 tour) 
  

• Metropolitan Museum - New York (through google)

• National Gallery of Art - Washington (online collection) 

• National Gallery of Art -Washington (through google) 
  

• Guggenheim Museum - New York

• J Paul Getty Museum - Los Angeles
  

• National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City 
  

• Museu de Arte de São Paulo 
  

• National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul (with google) 
  

…. and countless more!  visit the Google Arts & Culture Portal to see their online archive of collections: https://artsandculture.google.com/partner