Museums of the World
ART HIS 800.16
Join us virtually as we explore some of the world’s greatest museums through a guided tour of select paintings, sculptures, photography, new media and architecture.
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What you can learn.
- Connect on a deeper level to a variety of subject matters, techniques, and artists through their work
- Expand your understanding of people and artists from different backgrounds, times, and places
About this course:
In this course students participate in exciting virtual tours of some of the world’s greatest museums. Zoom groups travel together to world capitals to view and appreciate painting, sculpture, photography and new media works, as well as the architecture of the museums themselves. Through a combination of Google Arts and Culture Virtual Museum Project, website visits, selected videos and spectacular drone footage, we make the best of what the Internet has to offer. Museums include Musée d’Orsay, Uffizi Gallery, Rijksmuseum, The Tate, and The Museum of Modern Art, among others.
Our tours will include:
- Musée d’Orsay and the Eiffel Tower, Paris
- Uffizi Gallery, Florence and Acropolis Museum, Athens
- The Rijksmuseum and Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
- The Tate and the National Gallery, London
- Museums of Los Angeles: Getty, LACMA, Broad, Norton Simon
