And Now For Something Completely Different – check out the following links compiled by Operations Manager, Roger Dowling, to help you remain almost sane:

• Calm yourself with some poetry – Spread The Word
• A collection of 54 curator’s VLOGS introducing their favourite items in the British Museum collection
• Magic of Film: Online Tour of London with Quizzes – 1 hour duration and available twice a day at cost of £5. Details are here
  
• National Theatre podcasts and recorded interiews. A selection is here
• National Theatre at Home Quiz – 15 min
• Our Treasurer’s favourite small museum/art gallery (in Cambridge) – Kettle Yard
• Artists’ Village is a unique Arts & Crafts gem nestled in the Surrey Hills near Guildford – Watts Gallery
  
• An awe-inspiring find of Anglo-Saxon treasure in the midlands – The Staffordshire Hoard
  
• Paintings, drawings and sculptures in Central London – The Courtauld Gallery
• Restoring the Atemisia Gentileschi’s self portarit – The National Gallery
• An interactive tour of the world – Museum Of The World
• New York – The Guggenheim Museum
• New York – Central Park
• Florence – The Uffizi
• Vatican City – Vatican Museum
• St Petersburg – The Hermitage Museum – a one take tour of Russia’s iconic museum with a duration of 5hrs 20 mins!
• The British Mueum – self guided virtual walking tour
• The British Museum – DLC recommended audio tour exploring LGBTQ histories in the Desire, Love, Identity collection
• The Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford
• Borough of Woking Peregrines – Birds of prey live
• The Royal Family are streaming their Squirrel Cam from the Balmoral Estate where you may see rare red squirrels that live there.
• Edinburgh Zoo’s Panda Cam – other  camseras are selectable here too.
• Look over the top of the Hollywood Sign from the top of Mount Lee in Griffin Park. It will be dark throughout the morning in the UK!
• Nasa’s Space Station Webcam
• San Diego Zoo – Live Webcams
• Monterey Bay Aquarium – Live Webcams
• Houston Zoo  – Live webcams
• Smithsonian’s National Zoo – Live webcams
• Paris Left Bank – The History and Virtual Tour of The Musée d’Orsay, originally a railway station
• Greenwich, Sir Christopher Wren’s Painted Hall – Virtual Tour at the Old Royal Navy College
• Tour of Downing St with Tony Blair and Simon Schama
• Virtual Tour and other info at Buckingham Palace
• Tour of the Cabinet War Rooms
• Three different tours of the National Gallery
• Choice of tours of the Houses of Parliament
• Royal Academy Video tour of the “Picasso and Paper” exhibition
• Tours and guides of the Science Museum
• Video tour of the Aubrey Beardsley exhibition at Tate Britain
• Tour of Westminster Abbey
• The most beautiful Tulip garden in the world, Keukenhof, this year seen without people as it’s only open in the spring.
• Driver’s view of the 2 hour rail trip from St Moritz (Switzerland) to Turano (Italy) through the Bernina Pass (train actually starts its journey 2 mins in)
  
• A more practical journey than the one above although not in real time, The Jacobite Steam Train from Fort William to Mallaig
• Chicago to Los Angeles on board Amtrak’s Southwest Chief, a 40 hour journey (edited!)
• Documentary Bonanza! – See here
  

Do you ever wonder how I can look as young as I do at the age of 93? Check out Christine Webber’s series of short videos