Virtual exhibitions enable you to ‘e-visit’ museums from home

You can now “e-visit” selected exhibitions in Shenzhen Museum and Nanshan Museum via mobile phone or computer during the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak closures.

The museums have rolled out the “panoramic exhibition halls” online, offering users the immersive experience of a virtual visit to the physical museums. The panoramic, 360-degree virtual tours show online visitors the museum pavilions and best exhibits. They can even view detailed images of exhibited objects and related introductory texts by clicking on hotspots.

Shenzhen Museum

A screenshot of Shenzhen Museum’s website showing a virtual exhibition.

Go to the museum’s website (https://www.shenzhenmuseum.com) via an Internet browser on your mobile phone or computer, click “展览” and then “虚拟展厅” and finally select an exhibition to view. Highlighted online exhibitions include “Skeletons: An Evolutionary Perspective” (a display of animal bones), “Majolica: An Exhibition of the Legacies of 1,000 Years of Italian Ceramics,” “Propitious Clouds Holding up the Mount Qomolangma: Selected Artworks of Tibetan Buddhism” and “Forces of Nature: Ancient Maya Arts From the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.”

Nanshan Museum

A screenshot of Nanshan Museum’s website showing a virtual exhibition.

Go to the museum’s official WeChat account (nanshanmuseum), tap “看展览” and then “展厅导览” and finally select an exhibition to view. You can also go to the museum’s website by inputting the URL (www.nanshanmuseum.com/qjcl.html) via an Internet browser on a mobile phone or computer.

Available virtual tours include “Eternal Chang’an: Alluring Artifacts From the Grand Capital of the Tang,” “Misty Vistas” (Chinese masters’ landscape paintings from the late 19th century to the early 20th century), “Paestum: A City of the Ancient Mediterranean” (relics from Paestum in Italy), “Plentiful Central Plains: Henan’s Resplendent Antiquity” (ancient relics from Central China’s Henan Province) and “Treasures of the Golden Age: Precious Collections From the National Museum of Afghanistan.”