After I was writing the article about free digital excursions of artwork museums in Europe, I spotted that there are such a lot of different fantastic European museums with free digital excursions and collections out there on-line, so I instantly determined I’d dedicate an article to them too.

These 30 non-art European museums supply free digital excursions and on-line collections, making it straightforward to discover them from the consolation of your house. From pure historical past and know-how to style, meals, ships, vikings, vehicles, and extra, these digital experiences are instructional, entertaining, and completely free.

I’m together with under private favorites – museums I visited dwell – but in addition many museums I found – like you’ll by this text – on-line.

I selected to incorporate museums from totally different domains with the intention to discover one thing of curiosity to you.

These free digital excursions of museums are nice methods to find the world, the previous and the current, to study one thing (or educate, as youngsters can study too) and, better of all, they are often visited and re-visited for as many occasions as you need, utterly free.

As I discussed within the article targeted on European art museums with free virtual tours, there are totally different functions for a web-based tour and these excursions complement visiting a museum in individual. Greater than that, generally these museums are very removed from us and gaining access to their on-line assortment is the one method to go to them. And I for one am very grateful that I can do this!

So let’s see my 30 non-art European museums with free digital excursions.

1. Deutsches Museum, Munich (Germany)

I’m opening this text with a museum I visited final 12 months, a museum each my son and I beloved: Deutsches Museum, Munich – you possibly can learn right here my article with everything you need to know before visiting the Deutsches Museum, Munich.

This is likely one of the largest museums of science and know-how on the earth – a day was not sufficient for us to discover it totally!

I’m inviting you to find reveals starting from mining and aerospace to astronomy and chemistry within the official digital tour right here  https://virtualtour.deutsches-museum.de/?web site=853557939357960&vlon=1.73&vlat=0.02&fov=100.0&picture=1997495815397580

Google Arts and Tradition has additionally this museum included – right here: https://artsandculture.google.com/story/explore-the-deutsches-museum-from-home/_wVBDXWuHggILw?hl=en

2. Pure Historical past Museum, London, UK

Subsequent on my listing of European museums digital excursions is the Pure Historical past Museum in London.

So I’m inviting you to step right into a world of historical fossils, glittering gems, and towering dinosaurs. The museum affords a number of digital excursions together with Hintze Corridor with the long-lasting blue whale skeleton: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/go to/virtual-museum.html – there are 13 methods to discover from dwelling!

3. Viking Ship Museum, Oslo, Norway

My husband loves Norway, so you possibly can simply perceive why a museum from this nation is the third on this listing of free digital excursions museums in Europe.

This museum is dwelling to the best-preserved Viking ships on the earth, plus artifacts from Viking tombs. The net web site contains 3D scans and digital exhibitions – you possibly can go to them right here: https://viking.television/television/cultural-partners/the-viking-ship-museum and see particulars concerning the assortment right here: https://www.vikingtidsmuseet.no/english/the-collection/

4. Museum of Pure Sciences, Brussels, Belgium

Well-known for its assortment of Iguanodon dinosaur skeletons, however providing additionally important data and objects on evolution, biodiversity, and the human physique, the Museum of Pure Sciences has digital excursions out there through Google right here: https://artsandculture.google.com/story/a-short-360percentC2percentB0-guided-tour-royal-belgian-institute-of-natural-sciences/lAXR5ogqdyqGJg?hl=en. Particulars concerning the exhibitions are right here: https://www.naturalsciences.be/en/museum/exhibitions-activities

5. Museum of the Historical past of Science, Oxford, UK

This museum homes a rare assortment of early scientific devices, together with Einstein’s blackboard and astrolabes from the Islamic world.

You’ll find out extra concerning the collections right here https://hsm.ox.ac.uk/collections and you may discover it 3d right here https://v21artspace.com/museum-of-the-history-of-science – as a enjoyable word: after I wished to go to a special stage, I ended up within the wall :)) I moved and acquired again to the steps after which acquired to the appropriate flooring, however it put a smile on my face!

6. The British Museum, London, UK

Sure, there are a number of museums from the UK on this listing. However that is solely as a result of their collections are nice and there can be found excursions on-line.

So if you wish to get a complete timeline of human civilization, take a look at this museum. With over two million years of human historical past and tradition, the British Museum’s digital platform organizes artifacts chronologically and geographically.

You may see right here the official particulars on discover the museum on-line – tour, collections, podcast, and extra – https://www.britishmuseum.org/weblog/how-explore-british-museum-home and right here is an additional digital tour out there: https://360stories.com/London/story/the-british-museum

 7. Acropolis Museum, Athens, Greece

I acquired from the UK to Greece in only a second 🙂 And you’ll too! And you’ll love the expertise!

Athens’ beautiful museum affords digital entry to historical Greek sculptures, architectural components, and on a regular basis artifacts.

I included above indoor museums, however I like out of doors museums too. Archaeological websites are superb!

There are a number of digital excursions out there right here https://www.theacropolismuseum.gr/en/multimedia#apps and put together to spend at the least half an hour right here: https://www.acropolisvirtualtour.gr/ I beloved strolling this web site!

8. Nationwide Archaeological Museum, Naples, Italy

From Greece, I moved to Italy for one more superb archaeological museum with free digital excursions. 

This museum homes extraordinary treasures recovered from the ash-preserved Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. 

Their digital tour https://www.namuseum.gr/en/digital-virtual-tour-for-persons-with-mobility-impairment-or-hard-of-hearing-individuals-in-the-context-of-the-national-archaeological-museum-action-plan-for-people-with-disabilities/ highlights on a regular basis Roman life by preserved mosaics, frescoes, and home goods. You merely have to make use of the zoom choice to see the objects up shut. I beloved it!

One other hyperlink is that this one: https://artsandculture.google.com/story/explore-the-national-archaeological-museum-of-naples/xwWh9Tju8Vkcrw?hl=en

9. The Nationwide Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark

I don’t even know the place to start the presentation of this museum.

I must begin by mentioning that Denmark’s premier museum affords distinctive digital entry to one in all Europe’s most interesting collections of prehistoric and Viking artifacts.

After which I’m providing you with a hyperlink: https://en.natmus.dk/museums-and-palaces/the-national-museum-of-denmark/exhibitions/ but in addition a heads up: put together for a looooong go to on their web site.

On the appropriate facet, you might have their exhibitions. As you click on on every one, you will notice that the majority of them have digital excursions out there!

I instructed you you have to time exploring this!

PS an additional hyperlink: https://artsandculture.google.com/associate/national-museum-of-denmark

10. Royal Armouries, Tower of London, UK

And now, to a special area! See how superb touring museums on-line will be?

Royal Armouries is a specialised museum, and it affords detailed digital entry to one of many world’s most complete collections of arms and armor. There are a number of digital excursions out there – and you could find all of them right here: https://royalarmouries.org/leeds/3d-virtual-tour . Take pleasure in (hopefully, as a lot as I did!)

11. Museo Galileo, Florence, Italy

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One other fascinating discovery I made on-line is Museo Galilei. This specialised museum homes an necessary assortment of scientific devices, together with Galileo’s telescopes and the preserved finger of the nice scientist himself.

Their digital platform demonstrates how these historic devices functioned. Listed below are the hyperlinks: https://www2.museogalileo.it/en/library-and-research-institute/tasks/virtual-exhibitions/2702-palazzo-vecchio-maps-room.html and the hyperlink to {the catalogue} and extra alternatives for this museum: https://catalogue.museogalileo.it/index.html?_ga=2.8003634.1687375326.1747150795-1720370375.1747150795 and, lastly, the final hyperlink:https://artsandculture.google.com/associate/museo-galileo

12. Imperial Carriage Museum, Vienna, Austria

Welcome to a royal journey again in time! I like carriages and I all the time embrace them on my journeys.

The excellent news is that we are able to all admire those from this Viennese assortment. This beautiful museum homes the grand fleet of Habsburg courtroom autos – carriages, sleds, litters, and a 1914 courtroom car. Highlights embrace the gilded coronation coach and Empress Elisabeth’s private landaulet.

Digital entry through Google Arts & Tradition right here https://artsandculture.google.com/associate/the-museum-of-carriages-schonbrunn-palace

13. Electropolis Museum, Mulhouse, France

I admit I didn’t know this museum earlier than discovering it on-line. However it is rather fascinating and it permits you to hint the electrifying historical past of energy by digital Sulzer-BBC equipment excursions.

On the official web site I discovered a number of exhibitions and objects introduced (not a digital tour: images + explanations – nonetheless fascinating!) https://www.musee-electropolis.fr/en/edf/exhibitions-collections and right here I discovered 2 digital excursions too https://artsandculture.google.com/associate/museum-edf-%C3percentA9lectropolis

14. Tallinn Metropolis Museum, Estonia

I all the time embrace a go to to a museum concerning the metropolis – or nation – I’m visiting. I found which you can just about wander by medieval Tallinn through Google Arts & Tradition Avenue View https://artsandculture.google.com/associate/tallinn-city-museum. There are 3 excursions:

• Metropolis Life Museum https://artsandculture.google.com/streetview/tallinn-city-museum/0AFkLcCtYYAHcg?sv_lng=24.748136693030702&sv_lat=59.43870323053607&sv_h=210.85&sv_p=0&sv_pid=uUN4LEzbZDMAsIT5_6mv2Q&sv_z=1.0000000000000002
• Kiek in de Kök https://artsandculture.google.com/streetview/kiek-in-de-kok/rgHPcCh_0ny7lw?sv_lng=24.74132687491783&sv_lat=59.43475252492553&sv_h=156.55&sv_p=-13.299999999999997&sv_pid=fIRqZCS97JDMUBU2uqBJAg&sv_z=1 and
• The Home of Peter the Nice https://artsandculture.google.com/streetview/peeter-i-majamuuseum/0gGVj5wFC0hmgQ?sv_lng=24.79623242322191&sv_lat=59.43764540823388&sv_h=310.83&sv_p=-13.299999999999997&sv_pid=JjEuWDZWBmccmXJ2eDsM2A&sv_z=1 

15. Nationwide Air and Area Museum of France – Paris

With this museum, we’re entering into the gorgeous world of flying. France’s Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace enables you to pan 360° round Le Bourget’s huge hangars, sliding previous the supersonic Concorde, Ariane launch autos and WW-I biplanes. I’ve for you 2 hyperlinks. The primary one is that this – https://www.museeairespace.fr/en/collections/ . You click on on every merchandise and also you get quite a lot of data and, under, a 360degrees tour and, for some reveals, a video.

The second hyperlink is to the French model, the place you might have immersive walkthroughs reminiscent of “Verdun, la guerre aérienne” and “Trois pilotes, une guerre” https://www.museeairespace.fr/en/collections/ .

16. Roman Baths, Tub, UK

Tucked within the coronary heart of Tub, this historical Roman advanced is kind of fascinating. I truthfully love their web site, particularly the walkthrough, as a result of it permits any customer to study immediately about this advanced and the Roman baths. https://www.romanbaths.co.uk/walkthrough

The 3d tour is right here https://goo.gl/maps/573LM6ne2c12 

17. Previous Working Theatre & Herb Garret, London, UK

Housed in a cramped Georgian church attic in Southwark, the Previous Working Theatre & Herb Garret transports you again to 1822. You may see surgical devices, medication, herbs, and even a really fascinating quick film a few feminine skeleton and what it reveals concerning the girl’s life and physique. 

This was a really good shock for me – to seek out this small museum on-line. You may go to it too from your house by accessing https://my.merlin360tours.co.uk/en/tour/oldoperatingtheatre – from the Menu within the high proper nook, subsequent to the three horizontal strains, you possibly can change the rooms and exhibitions. 

18. The Air Museum, Portugal

Museu do Ar, Portugal, positioned at Sintra Air Base, with extra exhibition areas in Ovar and Alverca. In the event you like airplanes, you’ll like this museum. And, till you’ll be able to see all of the superb airplanes in individual, you possibly can see them on-line!

There are two digital excursions: The Air Museum in Sintra with this good digital tour https://museudoar.pt/vvmusar/ and The Air Museum in Alverca with this free digital tour https://museudoar.pt/vvmusaralvercaenglish/

19. MAUTO – Museo Nazionale dell’Car, Turin, Italy

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I stored the unique identify of this museum as a result of I just like the acronym. If you wish to see 200 unique vehicles from 80 manufacturers and to study extra concerning the car, that is the place for you. 

I didn’t find out about this museum previous to engaged on this text, so it was a pleasant shock for me. The museum has vehicles each previous and new, together with Method 1 vehicles! And, while you click on on an merchandise within the assortment (out there on-line right here https://www.museoauto.com/en/assortment/) you get greater than a photograph and a make and mannequin: you get full particulars! 

Take a free tour right here https://artsandculture.google.com/associate/museo-nazionale-dell-automobile

20. The Deutsches Röntgen-Museum

In Remscheid-Lennep, the birthplace of Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, the Deutsches Röntgen-Museum traces the story of his groundbreaking discovery of X-rays in 1895. By unique tools, early fluoroscopes, and a recreated Nineteenth-century lab, the museum affords an interactive journey into the invisible world that revolutionized science and medication.

As enjoyable as an interactive museum for an in-person go to is, when you can not go there, you possibly can nonetheless roam by the museum by the digital information. https://artsandculture.google.com/associate/deutsches-roentgen-museum and the tour https://artsandculture.google.com/streetview/german-rpercentC3percentB6ntgen-museum/wgGlrH7ziF3Eug?sv_lng=7.259653652915722&sv_lat=51.1937824685918&sv_h=115.69&sv_p=-13.299999999999997&sv_pid=A0jnwvvYqWQAAARAtEWUcQ&sv_z=0.9999999999999997

21. Parlamentarium, Brussels, Belgium

Would you want to go to the European Parliament? Then I’ve excellent news for you, as it’s accessible on-line – and I’ve to say that I like the best way you possibly can go to it on-line! Not solely are you able to discover it with a 360° digital tour, however the tour additionally contains movies the place an individual (your information) explains every thing concerning the Parliament (from decorations, rooms, a little bit of historical past, and extra.)

You might have a Private Multimedia Information (PMG) and that makes a distinction, belief me! Entry it in English right here https://360-experience.digital-journey.europarl.europa.eu/#/en (there are excursions in different languages out there, you could find them with a web-based search)

22. The Nationwide Museum of Computing, Bletchley, UK

Put together to step again in time by the fascinating world of computer systems. This museum, homes, in accordance with the official web site, “the world’s largest assortment of practical historic computer systems and World Warfare II machines, together with Enigma, Lorenz”, and lots of extra! 

And all of us have the prospect to go to it on-line https://mpembed.com/present/?particulars=1&ga=UA-32443811-1&hdir=2&m=pq6v8gMmxMw&mdir=3&minimap=2&minimaptags=0

23. Museo della Radiologia, Palermo, Italy

Sure, one other radiology museum (there are 4 in Europe) – Museo della Radiologia was open in 1995 and has some actually fascinating reveals.

You may test them on-line right here: floor flooring https://artsandculture.google.com/streetview/museum-entrance/vQHbwwZse07rdg?sv_lng=13.359522914429593&sv_lat=38.1054224534817&sv_h=119.4688829253116&sv_p=-16.344798477995425&sv_pid=doVgZyGYV80AAARF8_9Ngw&sv_z=1 and the opposite exhibition right here: https://artsandculture.google.com/streetview/second-floor/EwG-fOhZh5fXrQ?sv_lng=13.359439363430452&sv_lat=38.10534595181983&sv_h=198.81&sv_p=-13.299999999999997&sv_pid=aqJKVXBhRdUAAARF8_9NYQ&sv_z=0.9999999999999997

24. Postal Museum & Mail Rail, London, UK

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The Postal Museum & Mail Rail reveals a secret subterranean world the place miniature trains as soon as zipped beneath London, transferring hundreds of thousands of letters in silence.

Its digital expertise takes you on a narrated journey by these historic tunnels, enriched with uncommon archival footage that brings the town’s hidden postal community to life. Sure, this can be a totally different digital tour – because it has movies and it’s narrated – however it’s fairly an interesting journey to take from the consolation of your house. I for one beloved it! https://vimeo.com/407574682

25. Pure Historical past Museum Vienna, Austria

This museum is dwelling to a number of distinctive objects – and has a wealthy assortment. I used to be very completely satisfied to discover a digital tour of it to indicate it to you – https://artsandculture.google.com/associate/natural-history-museum-vienna alongside the gathering

26. The Berlin Museum of Musical Devices, Berlin, Germany 

Whereas we can not work together with them, this museum has musical devices of European artwork music from the sixteenth to the twenty first century. The gathering and a pair of digital excursions are right here https://artsandculture.google.com/associate/musikinstrumenten-museum

27. The Nationwide Museum of Science and Expertise Leonardo Da Vinci of Milan

There are numerous objects exhibited at this museum and included within the on-line assortment, however my important advice for visiting this museum on-line is which you can get inside a submarine! Sure, there a digital tour devoted to the submarine – together with a second digital tour devoted to railways – each right here https://artsandculture.google.com/associate/museo-nazionale-della-scienza-e-della-tecnologia-leonardo-da-vinci

28. Nationwide Coach Museum, Lisbon, Portugal

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Set inside a brilliant riverside corridor, Lisbon’s Nationwide Coach Museum brings historical past to life with royal coaches and papal carriages shimmering in gold and wealthy velvet. Sure, a second carriage museum on this article, however there are fantastic reveals right here, so I’m recommending you this museum.

There are 2 free digital excursions – you could find them right here https://artsandculture.google.com/associate/national-coach-museum

29. Financial institution of England, London, UK 

The Financial institution of England Museum takes you behind the scenes of Britain’s monetary coronary heart, from Seventeenth-century handwritten ledgers to a gold bar you possibly can raise – on a dwell tour. Its free on-line excursions (audio!) reveal uncommon banknotes, safety secrets and techniques, and the evolution of cash. There are 3 excursions, watch with totally different chapters, which is why, even when they aren’t digital excursions per se, I’m nonetheless recommending them to you.

You’ll find the audio guides right here:

• The Way forward for Cash https://app.smartify.org/en-GB/excursions/the-future-of-money
• Slavery and the Financial institution https://app.smartify.org/en-GB/excursions/slavery-the-bank
• Highlights tour https://app.smartify.org/en-GB/excursions/bank-of-england-museum-highlights-tour

30. Škoda Museum

Škoda Auto dates again to 1895, and the net museum showcases this spectacular historical past.

There are numerous guides and excursions, solely they’re extra video than digital excursions. Nonetheless, a powerful model with a powerful background, so undoubtedly value sharing this museum with you: https://museum.skoda-auto.com/en/museum-online 

Conclusion

Europe has loads to supply to all museum lovers. Now we have an extended, fascinating historical past and tradition – and the museums in Europe are an affidavit of that. In addition they assist all guests study extra concerning the world in its entirety. 

I included on this article many superb museums that provide an opportunity to anybody to view their collections on-line (both on their official web sites or in partnership with Google Artwork and Tradition) in addition to free digital excursions. 

I attempted to give you museums from all areas – from vehicles to airplanes and previous, royal and imperial carriages, from science to dinosaurs, from medical devices and knowledge to historical Greece. I hope you want them 🙂 

Photograph sources (so as of look, APART from these from dreamstime): 1 my photograph, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,