Even if it is in a virtual way, and not with an open day, today the International Museum Day is celebrated. Taking advantage of the virtual theme, the proposal for this edition is: Museums for equality: diversity and inclusion. It is intended that the virtual visit of this May 18 becomes a meeting point to celebrate diversity, they want to promote tools to identify and overcome prejudices.
If other years today was the ideal day to leave the classroom and for students to approach museums as an alternative and complement to education, today they will do it from the houses. We propose a selection of virtual tours for children, in which depending on the age, you can take a tour or another of the rooms.
Virtual visit to the Prado museum for children
We couldn't start this virtual tour without first naming the Prado Museum. The easiest thing is go to Collection, where we will find most of the works that can be seen if we walked through its rooms. The advantage is that the cameras offer you the details of the frames that we cannot get close to.
It is the Infanta Margarita, and the Infant Francisco de Paula, protagonists of Las Meninas, by Velázquez who guides the girls and boys and tells them the stories, anecdotes and curiosities of the most important art gallery in Spain. You will find many videos with the comments of the works by Bosco, Goya, Murillo, Velázquez ... with an accessible and entertaining language for children.
To complete this visit you can access with your children to Game for families, an illustrated plan in which a museum room is shown every day with different challenges to overcome. A whole virtual gymkhana.
Other Spanish museums that you can visit
In Malaga, the city's museums have prepared a whole day with different activities. In many of them, children play a leading role. The Carmen Thyssen Museum Málaga lAnza three proposals with the CEAR collective, the Malaga Autism Association and the Mental Health Unit of the Regional Hospital of Malaga. All are based on the memories that users, families, and children have of visiting this space. On the other hand, today is the last day to play on the website of Thyssen Educaweb to look for some of the marine animals created by the artist Joan Jonas in her exhibition Moving Off the Land II.
El Museum of Natural Sciences a series of activities dedicated to children and young people are underway. The content is appropriate according to age, there are workshops, storytelling, talks, guided tours, all online, with games and visual searches related to nature.
And so that your children take away the idea of museums as serious spaces, we remind you that most of football teams they have their own museums. So you can visit the main Soccer Clubs. I dare not name any of them, so that others do not forget me. But surely they will know anecdotes of their sports heroes.
Virtual visits and outside of Spain
The advantage of the internet is that it allows you to travel all over the world. You don't have to be in New York to visit the MOMA and you can even do it in your pajamas. It is a good time for your children to practice English, although the view is also in Spanish, and take a look at Destination, a virtual tour thought and designed for the little ones.
El Louvre in Paris It is another of the museums that has designed a special visit for children. For the little ones, he has designed a very fun and intriguing itinerary through the area of Egypt, one of the jewels of space.
The museum of Amsterdam dedicated to Vincent Van Gogh is one of the most impressive in terms of the design of its virtual tour for children. It was easy with the colors and the life of the impressionist painter, but they have done an excellent job in terms of teaching materials.