Online Museum Activities and Exhibitions

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We have collated a series of online materials together that are free to access online – these are a collection of online collections, free exhibits or tours from museums across the UK and beyond.

 

Museums with Online Collections in the UK

• British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection
• Great North Museum: Hancock: https://greatnorthmuseum.org.uk/collections/collections-search
• Museum of London: https://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/collections
• Reading Museum: https://www.readingmuseum.org.uk/our-collections/online-collections
• York Museums Trust: https://www.yorkmuseumstrust.org.uk/collections/
• Science Museum Group: https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/
• King’s College London: https://kingscollections.org/exhibitions/home
• Birmingham Museums Trust: http://dams.birminghammuseums.org.uk/asset-bank/action/viewDefaultHome?browseType=accessLevels
• The Glasgow School of Art Archives and Collections: https://gsaarchives.net/
• The Natural History Museum: https://nhm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/collectionDiscovery?vid=44NHM_INST:44NHM_V1
• Victoria and Albert: https://www.vam.ac.uk/collections?type=featured
• History of Science Museum: https://hsm.ox.ac.uk/collections
• The Horniman: https://www.horniman.ac.uk/explore-the-collections/
• National Maritime Museum: https://www.rmg.co.uk/discover
• Natural History Museum: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover.html
• Brooklands Museum: https://www.brooklandsmuseum.com/explore/our-collection
• Churchill Archives Centre: https://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/archives/online-resources/
• Imperial War Museum: https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections
• London Transport Museum: https://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/collections
• National Army Museum: https://collection.nam.ac.uk/
• South West Collections: https://swcollectionsexplorer.org.uk/
• UK Postal Museum: https://www.postalmuseum.org/collections/
• University of Dundee: https://www.dundee.ac.uk/museum/collections/search/

Virtual Tours in the UK

• Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery: https://www.birminghammuseums.org.uk/bmag/virtual-tour
• Pitt Rivers Museum: https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=ns3yCKpUzSq&help=1
• University of Aberdeen: https://exhibitions.abdn.ac.uk/university-collections/exhibits
• Cliffe Castle Museum: https://www.bradfordmuseums.org/venues/cliffe-castle-museum/virtual-reality-tour
• Westminster Abbey: https://www.westminster-abbey.org/learning/virtual-tours
• National Museum of Computing: https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=Vz8kCqGRjQA
• Oxford University Museum of Natural History: https://www.gala360app.com/u/album/170204Expq214429/_
• Science Museum, London: https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/what-was-on/shipping#virtual-tour
• Lloyd’s Register Foundation Heritage & Education Centre: https://hec.lrfoundation.org.uk/whats-on/from-coffee-to-seaweed-virtual-exhibition

Digital Archives & Libraries

• Bath Archives: https://www.batharchives.co.uk/
• British Library of Illuminated Manuscripts: http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/welcome.htm
• Cambridge Digital Library: https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/
• Digital Library of Scotland: https://www.nls.uk/digital-resources?
• Endangered Archives, British Library: https://eap.bl.uk/
• Glasgow Women’s Library: https://womenslibrary.org.uk/explore-the-library-and-archive/the-archive-collection/
• JSTOR: Open content search: https://about.jstor.org/oa-and-free/
• Manar al-Athar: Image resource for Middle Eastern archaeological sites: http://www.manar-al-athar.ox.ac.uk/
• The National Archives, UK: https://www.flickr.com/people/nationalarchives/
• Trinity College Library Dublin: https://digitalcollections.tcd.ie/home/
• Wellcome Library: https://wellcomelibrary.org/collections/digital-collections/