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Going into a self-quarantine can have many complex issues and complications beyond having enough food and supplies for two weeks. In terms of entertainment, it also probably means you're in for a lot of boredom, a lot of Netflix, and a lot of browsing the internet.

But there is a way to get a little culture and education while you're confined to your home. According to Fast Company, Google Arts & Culture teamed up with over 500 museums and galleries around the world to bring anyone and everyone virtual tours and online exhibits of some of the most famous museums around the world.

Now, you get "go to the museum" and never have to leave your couch.

Google Arts & Culture's collection includes the British Museum in London, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, the Guggenheim in New York City, and literally hundreds of more places where you can gain knowledge about art, history, and science. This collection is especially good for students who are looking for ways to stay on top of their studies while schools are closed.

Take a look at just some of Google's top museums that are offering online tours and exhibits.

British Museum, London

This iconic museum located in the heart of London allows virtual visitors to tour the Great Court and discover the ancient Rosetta Stone and Egyptian mummies. You can also find hundreds of artifacts on the museum's virtual tour.

Guggenheim Museum, New York

Google's Street View feature lets visitors tour the Guggenheim's famous spiral staircase without ever leaving home. From there, you can discover incredible works of art from the Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, Modern and Contemporary eras.

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

This famous American art museum features two online exhibits through Google. The first is an exhibit of American fashion from 1740 to 1895, including many renderings of clothes from the colonial and Revolutionary eras. The second is a collection of works from Dutch Baroque painter Johannes Vermeer.

Musée d'Orsay, Paris

You can virtually walk through this popular gallery that houses dozens of famous works from French artists who worked and lived between 1848 and 1914. Get a peek at artworks from Monet, Cézanne, and Gauguin, among others.

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul

One of Korea's popular museums can be accessed from anywhere around the world. Google's virtual tour takes you through six floors of Contemporary art from Korea and all over the globe.

Pergamon Museum, Berlin

As one of Germany's largest museums, Pergamon has a lot to offer - even if you can't physically be there. This historical museum is home to plenty of ancient artifacts including the Ishtar Gate of Babylon and, of course, the Pergamon Altar.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Explore the masterworks from the Dutch Golden Age, including works from Vermeer and Rembrandt. Google offers a Street View tour of this iconic museum, so you can feel as if you're actually wandering its halls.

Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

Anyone who is a fan of this tragic, ingenious painter can see his works up close (or, almost up close) by virtually visiting this museum - the largest collection of artworks by Vincent van Gogh, including over 200 paintings, 500 drawings, and over 750 personal letters.

The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

European artworks from as far back as the 8th Century can be found in this California art museum. Take a Street View tour to discover a huge collection of paintings, drawings, sculptures, manuscripts, and photographs.

Uffizi Gallery, Florence

This less well-known gallery houses the art collection of one of Florence, Italy's most famous families, the de'Medicis. The building was designed by Giorgio Vasari in 1560 specifically for Cosimo I de'Medici, but anyone can wander its halls from anywhere in the world.

MASP, São Paulo

The Museu de Arte de São Paulo is a non-profit and Brazil's first modern museum. Artworks placed on clear perspex frames make it seem like the artwork is hovering in midair. Take a virtual tour to experience the wondrous display for yourself.

National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City

Built in 1964, this museum is dedicated to the archaeology and history of Mexico's pre-Hispanic heritage. There are 23 exhibit rooms filled with ancient artifacts, including some from the Mayan civilization.

Sadly, not all popular art museums and galleries could be included on Google Arts & Culture's collection, but some museums are taking it upon themselves to offer online visits. According to Fast Company, the Louvre also offers virtual tours on its website.

To see more of Google Arts & Culture's collection of museums, visit the collection's website. There are thousands of museum Street Views on Google as well. Google Arts & Culture also has an online experience for exploring famous historic and cultural heritage sites.
This article originally appeared on TravelandLeisure.com.

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Children's authors and illustrators are creating resources and reaching out to educators to help during the coronavirus school closures.

As educators, parents, and students enter this unknown territory of school closures and remote learning, kid lit authors and illustrators have been stepping up to help. Many are parents themselves and juggling the same school/work balance amid the stress and uncertainty.

"Gina and I are transitioning to homeschooling," tweeted Jarrett J. Krosoczka, creator of the graphic novel Hey Kiddo among other titles. "We need to keep the kids on a schedule, and we are imagining we are far from alone. We want to help. Every weekday at 2pm ET for at least the next few weeks, I'll host free webcasts for you and your kiddos. http://youtube.com/studiojjk "

Laurie Halse Anderson, author of Shout, is making herself available for a virtual Q&A.

"Do you or your students or kids have any questions about my books? Ask them! Since we're all homebound for a while, let's turn social media into a #QuarantRead book club! DM me if you want to ask your question anonymously."

While perhaps best known for her YA work, including Speak and Shout, she has written for all ages and is welcoming questions from everyone.

"All ages are invited: readers of my picture books, Vet Volunteers, Fever 1793, the "Seeds of America" trilogy, and all my YAs; from Speak to SHOUT. Students should be able to get extra credit for participating!" she tweeted.

Starting March 23, Stimola Literary Studio, representing kid lit and YA authors and illustrators, will host livetreamed readalouds, craft activities, and drawing demonstrations between 9:00 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. EST with Matt Tavares, Ellen Hagan, Shannon Stocker, and many others.

Mo Willems, who gave permission for noncommercial use of reading his books, is doing daily doodles at 1 p.m. ET through the Kennedy Center, where he is artist-in-residence. It will be a mini drawing workshop, and he promises to show kids a little bit about his studio, too. Unfortunately, in a sign of likely logistical issues to come, the webpage was downed by too much traffic minutes before the first doodling session was to begin.

Grace Lin (right) was scheduled to start a new podcast this week. She hoped Kids Ask Authors-a five to 10-minute podcast where a children's author would answer one question from a young reader-would help bridge the gap of kids' access to authors. In the current crisis, she calls the endeavor "even more poignant."

Read: Free Tools for Online Teaching and Learning During School Closures

"I hope by having questions, reviews, jokes, stories and poems by kids closing each episode it's also a way for kids to feel like their writing has purpose outside their now smaller confines," she said in a tweet.

Kids can submit a book review, poem, short story or joke to the podcast, which will end with submissions from children. Temporarily, she will release three episodes a week.

READ:A Crisis-as in School Closures Due to Coronavirus-Justifies Fair Use, Say Librarians

Lin is also using her personal YouTube channel to help, recording herself reading her books-including Mulan: Before the Sword and When the Sea Turned to Silver -and doing some drawing demos.

One of the major concerns has been copyright laws and authors have made their own efforts to inform teachers and librarians if their books can be used without breaking copyright laws. If it is authors reading their own books, it might not matter.

"I've decided not to do online read-alouds of my books due to copyright issues, but I recommend the Poetry Foundation for interviews and recordings of myself and other Young People's Poet Laureates," Margarita Engle tweeted.

READ:Tackling Copyright Concerns When Taking Storytime Online

Many authors have and are reaching out to their publishers for guidance.

"FOR EVERYONE (TEACHERS) ASKING ABOUT RECORDING READINGS OF THE BOOKS: I just checked with MY publisher, and they said it's technically not allowed, BUT as long as you can keep it somewhere only students can access, (like your own channel on YT) it's fine," Jason Reynolds tweeted.

10-year-old superfan Ryu, daughter of SLJ's creative director, was one of 3,500 people who checked out Dan Gutman reading aloud from his latest "My Weird School" book, Miss Blake Is a Flake.

"Several teachers and librarians have contacted me, asking for permission to shoot and post videos of themselves reading my books for their students while their school is temporarily closed due to the coronavirus," tweeted Dan Gutman. "The answer is YES YES YES! I love it! Please do!"

Gutman planned a 2 p.m. ET reading of his Miss Blake is a Flake on his Facebook page.

Kate Messner has collected a list of "learning-at-home" resources from authors and illustrators that includes read-alouds, writing and drawing lessons, and research links, "all free & copyright friendly!" she tweeted.

Messner has been urging people to remember copyright laws even in these times. It is not up to the authors, she cautions, it is a publisher's decision. Reading only part of the books may be the answer for now as people work through the complexities of the law and try to find a solution.

"What I'd ask you NOT to do is share public read-alouds of entire books online," she tweeted. "That's less likely to be considered fair use and puts you in a shaky place. It's also more likely to harm creators, and may in the long term impact their ability to keep making books for your kids."

Read: In a Pandemic, Librarians Are Reporting to Work, Scared and Questioning Their Institutions

Kara Yorio

Kara Yorio (kyorio@mediasourceinc.com, @karayorio) is news editor at School Library Journal.

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Teachers can now post videos of themselves reading aloud from the Harry Potter books to children prevented from attending school because of the Covid-19 virus. This follows J.K. Rowling and her agents The Blair Partnership relaxing the usual copyright permissions required.

Teachers anywhere in the world are permitted to post videos of themselves reading from Harry Potter books 1-7 onto schools' secure networks or closed educational platforms from today until the end of the school year (or the end of July in southern hemisphere). A full set of Guidelines for Teachers are downloadable here.

The open licence for teachers is the first of several initiatives being planned to help bring Harry Potter to children at home, which will be announced shortly - watch this space for more details!

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