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One of the worst things a healthy person can experience his prolonged boredom. It is so bad; it is used as a form of punishment in prisons where troublemakers are put into solitary confinement. When people had to stay home due to the Coronavirus, it affected the population disproportionately. Some elderly people who lead solitary lives to start with, were now forced to stay inside for extremely long periods of time. Any recreation they may have had was shut down. I think the rest of us should realize that when we think things are bad for us, there are people out there that have it much worse. I’ve done a little research in things we can do from home to keep ourselves busy.

Please note, since Truthfacts doesn’t use live links, you will have to copy the page addresses and insert them into your web browser’s address area. Instructions appear at the bottom of the page if you are unsure how to do this. You will also have to familiarize yourself with the controls for each virtual tour. The best way to view these tours is on a computer because some of them are harder to handle on a cell phone and you just don’t get the scope of the exhibits on a small device.

There are many virtual tours available online and they are free. Some of the greatest museums in the world have these virtual tours so if you ever wanted to see their offerings now is the chance and you don’t even have to get out of your chair. If you are wondering how many of these virtual tours there are, because you are afraid they won’t last very long, Google has teamed up with others and has claimed there are over 2,500 of these free virtual tours. I am going to list some of them below:

Museum of Natural History:
http://www.samrohn.com/360-panorama/museum-of-natural-history-new-york-city/
There is an added bonus on this page, and it is there are other places in New York City listed where you can do some exploring.

British Museum London:
https://britishmuseum.withgoogle.com/
There is a lot of information here, once you figure out how to use the website. It is rather a strange design but doesn’t take long to figure out how it functions.

The National Gallery of Art Washington, D.C.:
https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/national-gallery-of-art-washington-dc?hl=en
This is one of the simplest websites to use because it displays 42,462 thumbnails of famous art and all you have to do is click on one to enlarge it.

No virtual tour would be even near-complete unless it had the Louvre Museum in France. It just so happens the Louvre is on this list.
https://www.youvisit.com/tour/louvremuseum
The artwork is overwhelming and this is one virtual tour you just must make.

Another great museum complex is the Smithsonian Museum. It is located in Washington DC and composed of different buildings.
https://naturalhistory.si.edu/visit/virtual-tour

One of the great museums in the world is the Smithsonian Natural History Museum which I have here.
https://naturalhistory.si.edu/visit/virtual-tour

For a change of pace, I have listed some addresses for virtual tours of different parts of NASA.
https://www.nasa.gov/specials/hangar360/#
https://oh.larc.nasa.gov/oh/
Each address above has different choices of NASA facilities to explore.

A virtual tour of Hong Kong is online and you can see it at:
https://samsungvr.com/view/Jjn_r8nvQrE?utm_source=SVRF&ref=SVRF

One virtual tour is really not a virtual tour at all but a video. It is a video taking you through the Coliseum in Rome. While you will have no control over it is extremely interesting because the video was taken as someone actually walked through the entire Coliseum.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJeF7hDB0UA man

Lastly, I included the palace at Versailles France. It has a lot of information while not a virtual tour as such, it is very interesting.
https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/palace-of-versailles

I hope you find these tours and information useful in giving you something to do during this crisis.

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