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The Durham Museum Virtual Field Trips
Free, live and prerecorded museum lessons bring Omaha history, trains, pioneer life, Native American life, architecture, and family history to classrooms and homeschool groups.
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Children’s Museum Houston Count Me In Activities
A math activity collection from Children’s Museum Houston with printable games about money, fractions, strategy, patterns, logic, conjecture, and estimation in English and Spanish.
Look Closer Museum
A virtual museum for families that guides children through artworks, rooms, details, and looking exercises designed to build careful observation.
Children’s Museum Houston 3D Virtual Field Trips
A museum collection of all-time-access 3D virtual field trips with videos and hands-on activities about water, physical science, invention, city life, matter, and math missions for ages 5 and up.
H@H Kids Edition
A virtual art activity series from the Heckscher Museum of Art with educator-led videos, materials lists, key terms, and discussion questions.
PlayMMOMA
An educational online game from the Moscow Museum of Modern Art that introduces children to contemporary-art concepts, museum works, and making their own artworks.
National Gallery London Family Activities
The National Gallery’s family activities page offers free family gallery activities, a dedicated creative-learning space, self-guided activities made by children, family tours, workshops, and a free Canvas Quest web app for ages 7+.
Cincinnati Museum Center Virtual Field Trips
Free, on-demand virtual field trips use video walkthroughs, expert interviews, and immersive exhibit content across Maya history, dinosaurs, caves, space, and Cincinnati history.
MoMA At-home Activities
The Museum of Modern Art’s family activity hub offers art-making ideas, film screenings, book ideas, and on-demand programs for kids and families, including a direct official YouTube playlist.
Arizona Museum of Natural History Virtual Museum
A self-guided virtual paleontology museum with an immersive 360 tour, scavenger hunt videos, teacher background information, lesson plans, and worksheets.
Children’s Museum Houston Game Quest
An all-time-access collection of strategy and math games including Mancala, Gomoku, Shisima, Achi, Bagh Chal, and probability games with visible age-group and player guidance.
Q?rius
An interactive Smithsonian learning space and online collection where children can explore 6,000 objects, try activities, solve science puzzles, and meet experts.
Bermuda Aquarium, Museum & Zoo: Activities for Kids
Official scavenger hunts and at-home conservation activities from Bermuda Aquarium, Museum & Zoo, covering animal coverings, diets, feet, birds, plants, and local nature.
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