Are you bored at home? Looking for some productive ways to de-stress, learn something new, or just procrastinate? Then you’ve come to the right place! The Marine Science Graduate Student Organization has compiled some of our favorite time wasting and sanity saving websites that we hope you’ll find useful and fun!
If you are aware of any other online resource that are not listed below, please don’t hesitate to let us know!
The Louvre The Guggenheim The Smithsonian Getty Museum Georgia O’Keefe Museum NASA Langley NASA Glenn NASA Space Center in Houston The Met Detroit Institute of Arts MoMA Museum of Fine Arts, Boston National Aquarium Smithsonian National Zoo Monterey Bay Aquarium WithWendy William Osman Simone Giertz Bernadette Banner Morgan Donner SciShow Animal Wonders It's Ok to Be Smart Bon Appetit Binging with Babbish Bill Vicars Jo Nakashima MetED Free Rice Zooniverse Projects NASA Citizen Science Projects Tallest Buildings in the WorldMuseum and Zoo Virtual Tours
Type: Art, Virtual Tours
Website: https://www.louvre.fr/en/visites-en-ligne#tabs
Type: Art, Virtual Tours
Website: https://www.guggenheim.org/collection-online
Type: Art, Natural History, Virtual Tours, 360 Tours
Website: https://www.si.edu/exhibitions/online
Type: Art, Virtual Exhibits
Website: https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/the-j-paul-getty-museum?hl=en
Type: Art, Virtual Exhibits
Website: https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/georgia-o-keeffe-museum?hl=en
Type: STEM, Virtual Tours
Website: https://oh.larc.nasa.gov/oh/
Type: STEM, Virtual Tours
Website: https://www.nasa.gov/glennvirtualtours
Type: STEM, Augmented reality experiences through their app
Website: https://spacecenter.org/app/
Type: Art, Virtual Exhibits including sneak preview at The Costume Conversation Lab
Website: https://artsandculture.google.com/streetview/metropolitan-museum-of-art/KAFHmsOTE-4Xyw?hl=en&sv_lng=-73.9624786&sv_lat=40.7803959&sv_h=315.0285349959785&sv_p=0.9453475127378823&sv_pid=KeFx8oXHzeuY8L5rfepHaA&sv_z=0.6337718060899007
Type: Art, Virtual Exhibits including Frida Kahlo’s art!
Website: https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/detroit-institute-of-arts?hl=en
Type: Art, Virtual Exhibits
Website: https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/moma-the-museum-of-modern-art
Type: Art, Virtual Exhibits
Website: https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/museum-of-fine-arts-boston?hl=en
Type: Aquarium, Live streams of enclosures
Website: https://aqua.org/Experience/live
Type: Zoo, Live streams of enclosures
Website: https://nationalzoo.si.edu/webcams
Type: Aquarium, Live streams of enclosures
Website: https://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals/live-camsMaking and Crafting Resources
Type: Sewing/DIY, Thrifting
Website: https://withwendy.com/tutorials
Type: Crafting, Home Engineering, Useless Inventions
Website: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfMJ2MchTSW2kWaT0kK94Yw
Type: Crafting, Cool inventions
Website: https://www.simonegiertz.com/
Type: Sewing, History, Historical Costumes and Fashion, Hand Stitching Techniques
Website: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSHtaUm-FjUps090S7crO4Q
Type: Sewing, History, Medieval and Renaissance Historical Fashion
Website: http://www.morgandonner.com/Online Learning Resources
Type: STEM, Informational Science Videos
Website: https://www.youtube.com/user/scishow
Type: STEM, Montana based animal rescue with informational videos about all of their animals!
Website: https://www.youtube.com/user/Anmlwndrs
Type: STEM, Informational Science Videos with a Bill Nye vibe
Website: https://www.youtube.com/user/itsokaytobesmart
Type: Cooking, Video Recipes, MSGSO especially recommends "Gourmet Makes" or "It's Alive with Brad" playlists!
Website: https://www.youtube.com/user/BonAppetitDotCom/
Type: Cooking, Recipes based on food from movies and TV, Basic Recipes
Website: https://www.youtube.com/user/bgfilms
Type: Languages, American Sign Language
Website: https://www.youtube.com/user/billvicars
Type: Crafting, Origami videos and instructional PDFs
Website: https://jonakashima.com
Type: STEM, Meteorology learning modules created by NCAR/UCAR
Website: https://www.meted.ucar.edu/index.php
Type: English, For each vocabulary question you get right, sponsors send the cash equivalent of 10 grains of rice to the World Food Programme!
Website: https://freerice.com/categories/english-vocabulary
Type: STEM, Citizen Science, MSGSO especially recommends ‘Plankton Portal’ game!
Website: https://www.zooniverse.org/projects
Type: STEM, Citizen Science
Website: https://science.nasa.gov/citizenscience
Type: Architecture: virtually explore the world's tallest buildings while learning interesting facts about their construction.
Website: https://www.bayut.com/mybayut/tallest-buildings-world/