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The exhibition, titled "Which One," opens on April 28.

Famous museums and art galleries are usually on the bucket lists of many travellers. But the ongoing pandemic and travel restrictions have put such visits on hold.

As an alternative, many museums and cultural institutions are now offering free virtual tours. Housing the richest and most extensive collections of artefacts and masterpieces, these establishments will help you get your much-needed fix of history and art. These tours also benefit those who are not fond of travelling or standing in long queues.

From New York’s iconic Metropolitan Museum of Art to the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum, we have curated a list of places you can tour online from the comfort of your home.

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The museum is as much a reflection of Hong Kong’s historical significance as it is a place to celebrate said significance.

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The museum is as much a reflection of Hong Kong’s historical significance as it is a place to celebrate said significance.

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The museum is as much a reflection of Hong Kong’s historical significance as it is a place to celebrate said significance.

For more stories like this, visit www.thepeakmagazine.com.sg.

The museum is as much a reflection of Hong Kong’s historical significance as it is a place to celebrate said significance.

For more stories like this, visit www.thepeakmagazine.com.sg.

The museum is as much a reflection of Hong Kong’s historical significance as it is a place to celebrate said significance.

For more stories like this, visit www.thepeakmagazine.com.sg.

After a renovation of a storied gallery at the Louvre Museum in Paris, the Cy Twombly Foundation has claimed that a monumental ceiling painting by the late artist has been permanently altered, thanks to a new paint job on the surrounding walls and a change in lighting. In a letter sent by a legal representative to Louvre director Jean-Luc […]

Opened in 2016, the museum housed some 230 motorcycles from over 100 brands.

With museums still closed due to Covid-19, art fans in need of a culture fix can always turn to virtual visits on the internet. But these online tours can seem a little lonely when experienced solo in front of a computer screen. Now, the Curatours app is on hand to help, allowing users to virtually visit cultural institutions with the people of their choice.

"Ooooh, that's nice, no? What do you think?" All those little phrases that you might murmur to a friend while visiting a museum, gallery or historical site have vanished along with real-life visitors. While the pandemic has momentarily put paid to these hushed discussions, the makers of the Curatours app are hoping to bring them back … digitally.

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The application - part-funded by the UK Government's innovation fund, Innovate UK -- lets the culturally curious discover the artworks and artefacts usually on show in a host of museums and cultural institutions. Users will be able to take part in virtual visits in the company of their friends, family and other Curatours users, recreating as best as possible the real-life museum experiences that they enjoyed before the pandemic. Art fans can take part in Live Tours and ask questions to the guide while looking in detail at 3D captures of artefacts and environments. They can also interact with their friends, family, classmates and other visitors.

"Going to a museum or gallery has always been a shared and sociable experience. As a result of Covid-19, we have seen the rapid adoption of technology to help us stay connected. Digital experiences have become crucial for cultural institutions to stay open, engage their audiences and attract new visitors. To date, virtual tours can feel like a solitary one-way experience. Curatours is our solution to this, making the experience a social one that can be shared with anyone, anywhere in the world," explains Emma Cooper, project lead at Cooperative Innovations, in a statement.

The immersive technology studio announced that the Curatours app will launch early in 2021, and is currently in the development stage with partners including the Anne Frank House and National Trust Scotland.

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Uncertain times call for unorthodox ideas.

Perrotin Gallery is collaborating with Paris' Grand Palais for a giant scavenger hunt, which will take place October 24 and 25. The rules are simple: Participants have to locate 20 artworks by contemporary artists that have been hidden around the empty nave of the Palais. Even more surprisingly, they can take home any artwork that they have found.

Participants will go on the hunt for works that 20 international artists on Perrotin's rooster have donated for the event. Among them are Takashi Murakami, JR, Daniel Arsham, Emily Mae Smith, Laurent Grasso, Iván Argote,Aya Takanoand Bharti Kher.

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"Since we don't know where we are going, it is almost as if anything is possible: immense, adventurous, and unapologetic projects make us feel connected to the world in this moment...Works of art are more precious than ever, which is why it is important to offer them to as many people as possible," art dealer Emmanuel Perrotin said in a statement.

The idea for "Wanted!" stems from a project by Elmgreen & Dragset organized in September 2016 by Perrotin Gallery. The Berlin-based artist duo staged an art fair booth in the empty nave of the Grand Palais a month before the opening of the FIAC contemporary art fair.

The 2020 edition of the Parisian event was recently canceled in reaction to a surge in coronavirus cases in France.

In order to comply with social-distancing guidelines, the 13,500 square-metre nave of the glass-roofed Grand Palais, which is also known as a venue for Chanel runway shows, will be filled to 20 percent capacity, and face masks will be compulsory during the entire scavenger hunt.

"Like many... works of art are usually not within my grasp, and I cannot have everything that I see," Chris Dercon, president of the Grand Palais, said in a statement.

"With 'Wanted!', the value of the work depends on the effort made by the visitors. Indeed, the true love of art is often a matter of chance: you often find what you were not really looking for. And it's also true that in many public and private collections, works of art are hidden."

(Main and featured image: Takashi Murakami /Kaikai Kiki/ Perrotin Gallery)

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And that’s before you consider the 151,000 artworks stored in the world’s first publicly accessibly art depot in Rotterdam.

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