High School Virtual Field Trip Resources

Students can work with 3D interactive models to learn concepts in biology, chemistry, earth, and space science.

With over 2000 museum partners from more than 80 countries, Google Arts & Culture is a one-stop shop for exploring art and historical collections.

Travel to any place on the globe using Google Earth or Google Maps. Take a closer look in Street View.

A Google Arts & Culture project, this site explores how climate change is affecting five heritage sites including Easter Island and Edinburgh, Scotland.

With a records database of over 64,000 musical instruments, this site makes it easy to explore musical instruments from around the world.

Several virtual tours are highlighted on this blog post from the National Parks Foundation.

Google Arts and Culture has also teamed up with several National Parks to create this virtual tour.

Finally, a search on the National Park Service website yields a list of virtual tours.

Find interactive simulations for both math and science content. A free teacher account gives you access to ready-made lessons and worksheets created by teachers to use with the simulations.

Founded in 2017, this site aims to digitally capture exhibitions and museum and cultural spaces to bring virtual 3D tours to life.

Africam aims to showcase Africa’s wildlife live and help generate awareness.

Live feeds of nesting sites and migration hotspots across North America.

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology provides live feeds of several birding sites around the country.

Explore.org is a live nature cam network and documentary film channel.

Look out into Monterey Bay or check out one of the many exhibits at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

The Museum of the World is set up to allow visitors to explore artifacts by time period, theme, or continent (or a combination of all three).

The Byzantine and Christian Museum is located in Athens, Greece. Many of the religious artefacts and exhibits of this museum focus on the Early Christian, Byzantine, Medieval, post-Byzantine and later periods.

The Cranbrook Art Museum’s collection includes art, architecture, craft, and design from the 20th and 21st centuries. They highlight the achievements of artists from Cranbrook Academy of Art and Detroit.

This museum is dedicated to the works of Salvador Dali and is located in Figueres Spain in Catalonia.

Travel to Mexico City and explore the works of Frida Kahlo and imagine her life in the Casa Azul.

Explore Shakespeare’s Globe where theater goers experience plays as they would have been performed in Shakespeare’s day.

This museum was founded in 1889 to study the history and culture of those who spoke Semitic languages .

With several virtual tours, you can enjoy the museum rooms and galleries without traveling to Paris.

#metkids was “made for, with, and by kids.” Easy, understandable way to explore specific pieces within the Met.

Located in the Kathmandu Guest House, MoNA’s collections explore Nepal’s traditions and culture.

Located in New Mexico, this museum was opened to help bring “an appreciation of the culture and craft of other country.”

The Pitt Rivers Museum houses the archaeological and anthropological collections of the University of Oxford.

Located in Belgium, this museum houses the personal collection of industrialist Raoul Warocque. The museum labels in this virtual tour are in French.

MASP’s virtual tour helps promote their new mission, revised in 2017, “to establish dialogues between past and present, cultures and territories, through the visual arts.”

Travel through the Vatican by visiting one of several virtual tours.

Visit Villa Vizcaya, formerly the estate of James Deering, on Biscayne Bay in Miami , Florida.

Explore the Throne Room, the Grand Staircase, and the White Drawing Room

Advertised as the most visited museum in Canada, the Canadian Museum of History lets viewers examine the people and events that have helped shape Canada.

The Diefenbunker was commissioned in 1959 during the Cold War to protect members of the Canadian government in the event o a nuclear attack.

This interactive tour provides the history of Ellis Island, first-hand stories of people who came through Ellis Island, and photographs.

This memorial has several virtual tours available allowing you to roam throughout many of their exhibits.

Take a virtual tour of Mount Vernon.

Travel back in time and explore the events that led to the creation of a new nation.

Enter the cockpit and access 360 degree views of more than ten different aircraft.

Housed within the Frederiksborg Castle since 1878, this museum helps visitors learn about the people and events that shaped Denmark from the Middle Ages to modern times.

MAN has one of the most important antique collections in the world. The exhibits help us better understand Mediterranean cultures from prehistory to the 19th century. Museum labels are in Spanish.

This museum documents the importance of the Great Lakes as a natural resource and also details how the Great Lakes have impacted the North American continent socially, economically, and politically.

Travel back in time 400 years to and explore the East Indies from the 1600s to 1819 in this tour.

The official museum of the United States Air Force is the oldest and largest military aviation museum in the world.

Named a National Historic Landmark in 1998, this museum and lighthouse helps preserve the maritime heritage of the United Sates.

Climb aboard and explore the different cars and equipment used in the Pennsylvania Railroad.

Visit Monticello.

Explore the history and beauty of Westminster Abbey.

This tour provides lots of views from inside and out. Explore the interior and the exterior, and don’t forget to check out the museum.

Explore the surface of Mars as recorded by NASA’s Curiosity Rover.

Visit the Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, where advancements are begin made in aeronautics and space exploration.https://www.nasa.gov/glennvirtualtours

Langley Research Center is the oldest NASA field center. Here they focus on aeronautical research and testing space hardware, such as the Apollo Lunar Module.

Dive beneath the waters at the National Aquarium in Baltimore.

Join National Geographic on this exploration into the world’s largest cave.

Located in the United Kingdom, this museum collects and restores historic computer systems.

Explore permanent exhibits along with current and past exhibits and find additional tours for the Smithsonian Castle and Hirshhorn Outdoors.

The HayWired Scenario allows users to examine the effects of a hypothetical 7.0 magnitude earthquake.

Use the Virtual Dive Gallery to view dive into a coral reef system located in the Gulf of Mexico.

Visit the Holocaust Museum Houston.

Watch flocks of migrating shore birds at Bolivar Flats, or check out what birds are visiting the Edith Moore Sanctuary in Memorial City, Houston.

Take a trip to the Houston Zoo.

Check out the Lone Star Flight Museum located in Ellington Airport.

Visit the penguins, dive underwater, take in the views of the rainforest and more using the Moody Gardens webcams.

Access performances, exhibitions, virtual exhibitions and more using MFAH@Home

Take a tour through the Panhandle Plains Historical Museum located in Canyon, TX.

Learn more about the Lone Star State through this Interactive Map or the Texas History Timeline.

Remember the Alamo, a National Historic Landmark.