Virtual Field Trips & Live Cams

The power of video and virtual reality allow you to travel the world, right from your couch.

1. Tour the Great Wall of China

2. Tour some of Hawaii’s beautiful landmarks

3. Tour U.S. National Parks & Check out this list to find out which parks see the most visitors every year

4. Take a boat on a canal in Norway

5. Take a train to the Arctic circle

6. Take a reindeer sleigh ride

7. Take a boat to London

8. Take a ride at Disney

9. Tour 10 world famous landmarks

10. Tour the street art in cities around the world

11. Virtually trek Mount Fuji

12. Virtually trek through the Khumbu sacred valleys

13. Explore the dense forests of Gombe, Tanzania

14. Virtually tour Keukenhof’s famous Spring Tulip festival 

15. Dive deep into the ocean

16. Monterey Bay Aquarium Live Cameras 

17. Explore Live Cams

18. Window Swap 

19. City Live Cams
      • Amsterdam

      • Tokyo

      • Cancun

      • Toronto

      • Rome

      • Sydney

19. Study Abroad Association - Friday City Tours

20. Edinburgh Festival Fringe

21. Literary Festivals 

Virtual Museum Tours & Collections

New Jersey 
• Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton
• Montclair Art Museum, Montclair
• Newark Museum of Art, Newark 
• Physick House Museum, Cape May
• Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
• Rutgers University Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick

Amsterdam, Netherlands 
• Rijksmuseum 
• Van Gogh Museum  

Berlin, Germany
• Pergamon Museum

Bilbao, Spain 
• Guggenheim Bilbao Museum

Florence, Italy
• Uffizi Gallery 

Kansas City, United States of America
• American Jazz Museum

Lausanne, Switzerland
• The Olympic Museum 

London, United Kingdom 
• British Museum 
• Natural History Museum
• More exhibitions in the United Kingdom

Mexico City, Mexico 
• National Museum of Anthropology 

Nairobi, Kenya
• Nairobi National Museum 

New York, United States of America 
• Guggenheim Museum  
• Whitney Museum of Art 

Paris, France
• The Louvre   
• Musée d’Orsay

São Paulo, Brazil 
• Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP) 

Seoul, South Korea 
• National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art

Virginia, United States of America 
• NASA Langley Research Center 

Washington D.C., United States of America 
• National Gallery of Art 
• National Women’s History Museum 
• Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

Travel-Themed Board Games

Play Online: 

The Scarlet Knight's Amazing Race Around the World - Follow the clues to find the Knight and bring him back to Rutgers!

Play games popular around the globe

Sagrada: Board game themed around La Sagrada Familia glass windows in Barcelona. Players create their own glass windows while adhering to the game rules.

Forbidden Desert: Team members are stranded in the middle of a desert and must work together to escape it before running out of food and water.

7 Wonders: Board game centered around the ancient 7 wonders of the world. Participants have to grow their civilization through different ages of the past.

Explore the World: Board game that incorporates trivia questions about the world.

Virtual Performances

Opera 
• The Metropolitan Opera (see schedule) 
• OperaVision
• The Paris Opera 
• Glyndebourne Open House 

Concerts & Orchestral Performances
• #IrelandPerforms
• Melbourne Symphony Orchestra  
• New York Philharmonic Orchestra 
• Colorado Symphony – “Ode to Joy”
• Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest – “Ode to Joy”

Choirs/Vocal Performances  
• Berklee College of Music – “What the World Needs Now”
• Broadway Actors Lip Sync – “One Day More”
• Chino Hills High School Chamber Singers – “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”
• Global Couch Choir – “(They Long To Be) Close to You”

Plays and Musicals 
• National Theatre - London
• The Shows Must Go On!
• The Winter’s Tale 
• The Rose Playhouse - Virtual Events

Global Films

• Rutgers University Libraries provides access to hundreds of films, including a selection of movies for Global Studies & Languages.

• La Casa del Cine MX is offering a number of Mexican and International films, available to everyone to stream free.

• Here’s a list of 161 science documentaries you can stream right now with no membership.

Learn a New Skill

• Take virtual yoga, barre, pilates and other fitness classes with Rutgers Recreation 

• Learn how to draw from 20+ YouTube Channels     

• Learn ballet from the masters at the English National Ballet with virtual classes on Facebook. 

Learn a New Language

All this time at home is the perfect opportunity to master a new language. Check out this list from LinguaLift of the 10 best language learning apps.