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7 ways you can virtually escape without leaving your house during the coronavirus outbreak, from hitting a Broadway show to walking the Great Wall of China
7 ways you can virtually escape without leaving your house during the coronavirus outbreak, from hitting a Broadway show to walking the Great Wall of China
Melissa WileyMar 20, 2020, 03:11 IST
On March 14, the US Department of State urged Americans to reconsider travel abroad, and on March 15 the Centers for Disease Control released new health guidelines recommending that gatherings of more than 50 people be postponed until May.
From livestreamed opera performances to 360-degree tours of iconic tourist destinations, Business Insider has rounded up some of the best ways to virtually travel during the global health crisis.
Tune into the Metropolitan Opera's website each night at 7:30 p.m. ET through the end of March for a free, livestreamed show.
In response to New York City's ban on public gatherings of 500 or more people, New York's Metropolitan Opera has suspended shows through the end of March. Until operations resume, the Opera is streaming past performances for free on its website at 7:30 p.m. ET each night. The performances will be available to watch for 20 hours post stream.
Listen to Broadway stars perform Broadway hits while their shows are on pause in a series of "Living Room Concerts" posted to BroadwayWorld.com.
Like the Metropolitan Opera, Broadway has shuttered productions through April 12 due to New York City's ban on mass public gatherings. In the meantime, Broadway stars have partnered with Broadway World to produce a series of virtual mini-performances.
The performances, filmed by stars in their living rooms and posted on BroadwayWorld.com, are free to watch; however, Broadway World asks viewers to consider making a donation to The Actors Fund or Broadway Cares, which support entertainment professionals in times of need.
Float through an amber kelp forest in the Channel Islands, hang out with manatees in Florida, and watch bald eagles nest in real-time on Explore.org, the world's largest live nature cam network.
Tour and browse the digitized collections of more than 1,200 cultural institutions around the world including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, and the Musée d'Orsay in Paris through Google Arts & Culture.
In addition to iconic monuments and tourist attractions, Google Arts & Culture allows users to tour the world's foremost museums in 360 degrees and browse hi-res images of their collections. The collections are searchable by artist, art movement, and country, among other categories, and Google Arts & Culture's map feature populates nearby museums using your location data.
Hike over six miles of the 2,000-year-old Great Wall of China virtually on TheChinaGuide.com, a website dedicated to China travel.
The China Guide, a Beijing-based travel agency, has developed a virtual tour of one the Great Wall of China's most iconic sections, Jinshanling to Simatai. This section crosses the border between Beijing and Hebei provinces and has been the go-to destination for many magazine shoots thanks to its sweeping views, according to the agency. It is currently closed to visitors due to safety reasons.
