This is a list of a few virtual tour sites and one portal site that lists virtual tours. We decided we could use it in a whole class setting with a computer and a projector. Many require Flash, QuickTime or other software capabilities, but nothing expensive. They could also be used individually by students in a computer lab if they have headphones available. Some have sound and others do not.
 
Virtual Tours
www.CampusTours.com – Lets you search by state or university/college name for virtual tours of their campuses. Some of them are just sets of photos, but others could be classified as virtual.

The Louvre Museum in Paris offers virtual tours of different departments by floor:
http://www.louvre.fr/llv/musee/visite_virtuelle.jsp?bmLocale=en

Virtual Field Trips through The Teachers Guide web site; List below.
http://www.theteachersguide.com/virtualtours.html
General
Nine Planets Tour
NASA Space Shuttle Virtual Tour 
Virtual Tour: Martha's Pretty Point in the VFPW 
Virtual Tour: Flame Azaleas in June 
A Virtual Tour of the Sun 
Virtual Tour: Bee Creek Overlook 
The World Wide Web Virtual Library: Museums 
National Geographic

Museums
Tour the Museum of Advertising Icons
The Virtual Altair Museum (First Personal Computer)
Tour The American Museum of Natural History
The American Museum of Photography Guided Tour
American Treasures - Library of Congress
The Ancient Olympic Games Virtual Museum
Tour an Ancient Roman Villa
Tour Asian Art Treasures
Tour the Largest Art Collection Online in San Francisco, CA
The Canadian Museum of Civilization 
Tour The Catherine Palace of Tsarskoye Selo
Tour The Collection at The National Gallery of Art
Tour the DeCordova 35 acre Sculpture Park
The Drop Zone Virtual Museum (WW II Airborne) 
Virtual Tour of Durham Cathedral
Tour the Ellis Island, NY 1900-1920 Photographic Exhibit
Institute and Museum of History of Science - Florence, Italy
Greek and Roman Art Collection
Holocaust Museum Tour
The International Museum of Horses
Tour The Jimmy Stewart Museum
Tour Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings in Wisconsin
Tour The Museum of Unnatural Mystery
The First Virtual Mousepad Museum
Tour Historic Mount Vernon The Home of George Washington
Tour The National Museum of Women in the Arts
Tour the Natural History Museum in London
Tour the Obsolete Computer Museum!
Tour the Orchard House/Home of the Alcotts 
Museum of Promotional Pens 
Tour the Tokugawa Family Art Museum in Nagoya, Japan 
Tour the U.C. Berkeley Museum of Paleontology
Tour the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame + Museum
Tour the Samurai Asian Museum
Tour the Sistine Chapel
Tour the International Surfing Museum
Tour the Virtual Egyptian Museum
Tour the Smithsonian - The World's Largest Museum
Toyota Automobile Museum in Tokyo 
Ueberseemuseum in Bremen, Germany (In German)
Tour Williamsburg and You'll Tour Through the Pages of Colonial America.

Exhibits
Tour Africian Art:Aesthetics and Meaning
Virtual African Primate Safari
Tour the Agfa Professional Photo Protfolio
Gallery of Photographs of the American Frontier
Tour an Ansel Adams Photographic Exhibit
Tour the Atom
Benjamin Franklin: Glimpses of the Man
Photo Devastation of Brazil
The Dead Sea Scrolls
Frank Lloyd Wright Designs for an American Landscape
Tour a German U-boat
Tour a Narrated Dinosaur Exhibit
Tour the John Muir Exhibit
Holocaust Pictures Exhibition
Virtual Tour of the March of the Living
Martin Luther King Jr. exhibit with Photo Tour
Tour Napa Valley Wineries
Tour Ocean Planet, a remarkable exhibit.
Tour the Presidential Libraries
Rocky Mountain National Park Exhibits
Saskatchewan Indian Cultural Center Exhibit 
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
View the Shroud of Turin 
Tour the Soviet Archives

Egypt Voyager
http://www.egyptvoyager.com/virtualtours.htm
A wide selection of virtual tours of Egypt

The White House
http://www.whitehouse.org/tours/
From this page there are links to photos of different rooms in the White House with information about each room.

PBS White House tour

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/whitehouse/virtual.html
This virtual tour shows outline drawings of each room and will zoom in on details. Would be good to pair with the one above that has real color photos of the rooms.

U.S. Capitol Virtual Tour “A Capitol Experience”
http://www.senate.gov/vtour/1high.htm

Virtual Tours of Britain
http://www.britishtours.com/360/
This one was really neat. Includes the Beatles’ Abbey Road, ChristChurch on which Harry Potter’s Hogwarts Great Room was modeled. The virtual 360 really works by dragging your mouse across the picture.

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