EXPLORE A SELECTION OF ONLINE RESOURCES FOR READING AND ENRICHMENT.
Old News from New-Gate Prison! Check out 300 year old breaking news from New-Gate prison! While the museum needs to physically closed, they are regularly developing new content and virtual experiences.
The Tenement Museum in New York City is inviting you to experience and visit the museum from home. They have digital exhibits, podcasts, live virtual events and many other ways to explore the museum apartments and learn about the lives of many generations who lived there.
NASA offers free virtual tours of the Langley Research Center in Virginia, as well as of Ohio’s Glenn Research Center. The Space Center Houston also has an app that provides virtual tours, augmented reality experiences, and videos and audio stories about space exploration.
The Metropolitan Opera has canceled all upcoming performances because of coronavirus concerns. While the Met is closed, they will be streaming encore presentations from the Live in HD series on the company website starting March 16.
According to their website, the opera streams will begin at 7:30 pm each night and will be available to view at metopera.org for 20 hours after each performance.
Washington, D.C.’s National Museum of Natural History, one of the most-visited museums in the world, offers a peek at its wonderful treasures with an online virtual tour of the entire grounds.
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A Free Videotaped Reading of Charlotte’s Web in its entirety by locals author, Renata Bowers – 22 chapters, one video per chapter. This can be found at www.FriedaB.com/CharlottesWeb. This was created initially for a local senior center looking for a way to reach their patrons who are homebound. As the series was taped, they quickly realized they could make the videos available to anyone – young and old. It’s such a timeless story.
Road Trip from Home: Virtual Field Trips
Check out these fun and wonderful websites that will show you different parts of the world, famous landmarks, beautiful works of art, historic marvels, science adventures and so much more!