Virtual Tours

Acropolis Virtual Tour

It is an interactive website, created by the Greek Ministry for Culture and by YSMA (Acropolis Restoration Service), that allows to explore the four main monuments located on the Athenian Acropolis (Parthenon, Propylaea, Erechtheum, temple of Athena Nike) and the internal and external wall, by means of high-resolution images provided with historical information and descriptive maps. The images show several detailed aspects of the monuments as well. The user can thus undertake a real virtual tour of the Acropolis.
In Greek and English language.

Baghdad, Il Museo Virtuale dell’Irak

http://www.virtualmuseumiraq.cnr.it/prehome.htm

The website has been created thanks to the cooperation between the Italian National Research Council and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. The website allows to undertake a real virtual tour in a Museum that collects Iranian works of art and artifacts ranging from Prehistoric age to Islamic period. Objects are grouped in thematic rooms and are illustrated by descriptive data, filmed sequences and tridimensional reconstructions.
In Italian, English and Arabic language.

Lagina. Sacred precint of the god Hekate

http://www.lagina.org/gallery/album0.html

The website, coordinated by Bodrumlife Publications, provides information concerning the sanctuary and contains a photo-gallery composed by more than 700 figures ranging from 1963 to 2008. Thereby, the temple, the propylaea and the other monuments of the temenos are illustrated through photographs taken during the excavation.
In Turkish and English language.

Museo Statale dell’Hermitage, Virtual Tour

http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/08/hm88_0_0.html

The State Hermitage Museum (http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/index.html) contains more than three millions objects and works of art from all over the world, including a large Greek, Etruscan and Roman art collection. The virtual tour enables the user to visit the rooms composing the museum and to stop on most relevant masterpieces.

Odysseus

http://odysseus.culture.gr

The Hellenic Ministry of Culture website allows to access several Greek museums and archaeological sites, provided with historical data, general introductions and bibliography. There are useful links to other websites, too.
In Greek and English language.

The Parthenon Frieze

http://www.parthenonfrieze.gr/#/home

The application is a section of the YSMA (Acropolis Restoration Service: http://www.ysma.gr/en/) website and was developed by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture, the First Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities and the National Documentation Centre. The virtual interactive representation of the Parthenon frieze is provided with descriptive data and an overall illustration of the Parthenon (http://www.parthenonfrieze.gr/#/read). It includes high-resolution images pertaining to all frieze’s parts preserved in the Acropolis Museum, the Louvre and the British Museums. The website is addressed to archaeologists, general public and also children, who can learn by playing with thematic on-line games (http://www.parthenonfrieze.gr/#/play).
In Greek and English language.

In greco e in inglese.

Vatican Museums, Collections on line

http://mv.vatican.va/3_EN/pages/MV_Visite.html

The website in hosted in the Vatican Museums’ website (http://mv.vatican.va/3_EN/pages/MV_Home.html). It is possible to have a virtual tour in the exhibition rooms, zooming on specific objects and reading related information.
In English language.

The Virtual Egyptian Museum

http://www.virtual-egyptian-museum.org/

The website, created by the California Institute of World Archaeology (CIWA) and containing items of the Senurset Collection, aims to bring to the public a collection otherwise non accessible, as locked up in bank vaults. Objects are organized in chronological order, but also according to their material and typology, and are provided with information notes and figures.
In English language.

The Virtual World Project

http://www.virtualworldproject.org/vr/core/toc.html

The website, constantly updated, allows to virtually explore main archaeological sites in Israel and Jordan through “active points”. In the nearby future, the project will be extended to Syria as well. The initiative was originally born in 2002 focusing on archaeological sites in Greece and Turkey (Legacy Sites), but subsequently concentrated on Middle East, by ceasing to update the previous section.
In English language.