At home entertainment and culture resources

• TV, film and cinema
• Theatre and performance
• Museum tours and activities
• Animals, zoos and farms
• Creativity
• Education and learning

TV, film and cinema

• Pretend you're at the cinema, watch films with the viral film festival

• Idea Store has a range of films, documentaries, shorts and box-sets

• YouTube Spotlight has an array of world-renowned plays, famous sporting events and amazing concerts available.

Theatre and performance

• Half Moon Theatre is showing free full length family friendly shows every Wednesday

• The National Theatre is streaming a performance live every Thursday, for free

• The Royal Opera House is streaming performances for free

• Sadler's Wells is streaming performances and workshops for free

• Gecko theatre has a range of plays on their YouTube channel

• Hampstead theatre is showcasing performances weekly

• Cheek by Jowl has brought back the archive recording of its hit version of Shakespeare's problem play ‘The Winter’s Tale'

• Myth: The Rise and Fall of Orpheus a modern retelling of the ancient Greek story of Orpheus and the underworld

• Everybody's Talking about Jamie is a hit musical inspired by a true story

• Only the Brave, the hit musical tells the story of a group of soldiers in the run-up to the D-Day landings

• Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Show Must Go On. He'll be releasing a full-length, smash-hit musical once a week for you to watch for free. It will be available for 48 hours, so you can tune in whenever you like over the weekend.
• The Space have fused the 125-year-old opera, Tosca, with virtual reality to put you in the centre of Puccini’s greatest love story.
• The Metropolitan Opera are providing dynamic, fresh content every night at the moment, diving into their back-catalogue of incredible productions to provide a new show on their website every day.
• Opera Vision will release new shows weekly
• The Royal Opera House have released a variety of their incredible productions

Museum tours galleries and activities

• The Royal Academy has activities and virtual walkthroughs of the gallery’s current exhibitions.
• British Museum virtual tour

• National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C has online tours

• Musée d’Orsay virtual tour

• National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul virtual tour

• Guggenheim Museum, New York has a range of online resources
• Digital Design Museum is a a new series of online content bringing the world of design into your home.
• V&A are displaying a range of collections online
• Explore the surface of Mars on the Curiosity Rover
• Museum of London has lots of fun home-learning ideas
• NASA image gallery is perfect for budding astronauts and astronomers
• Florence Nightingale Museum Nightingale in 200 Objects, People & Places exhibition
• Royal Museums Greenwich offers a desert island guide to self isolation and you can build your own solar system in a box
• Natural history museum has a range of online exhibits
• Hauser & Wirth’s gallery has a range of online exhibitions and is also launching Dispatches, a new series of videos, events and features to keep connected with artists in isolation.
• British Library has a large collection of interesting items
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York online exhibit highlights are spotlights on Christian Dior and Coco Chanel, the art of music through time and a new look at Vermeer.
• The Courtauld Gallery has already been closed since 2018 for a major redevelopment, and created a virtual tour of the venue as it was before the doors shut.
• V&A virtual Gallery of Fashion takes viewers through the history of clothing design around the world. Further exhibits include spotlights on Balenciaga, Schiaparelli, Indian textiles and the politics of fashion.
• The Science Museum has lots of interseting learning resources

Animals, zoos and farms

• Folly Farm barn webcam

• Edinburgh Zoo's panda cam, penguin cam, tiger cam, koala cam and rockhopper penguin cam

• Dublin Zoo's elephant webcam

• Wildlife Trust Cumbria has a badger cam

• Farm Food 360 offers 11 Virtual Tours of Canadian farms from minks, pigs, and cows, to apples and eggs
• San Diego Zoo has live animal cams, activities, and games
• London Zoo take a look behind the scenes at the zoo and see the amazing work that goes into looking after some of the most fascinating and endangered animals in the world.

Creativity

• Creative fun for all the family
• Poplar Union drawing class
• Poplar Union Team Tips
• Poplar Union book club
• Poplar Union Music showcase. Hosting a mix of genres and even a virtual open mic night on Fridays.
• Relaxation art with Brenda Coyle
• Stitches In Time Project - make a tapestry of your time in isolation
• Tower Bridge has a podcast and quizzes created by historians to test your knowledge

Education and learning

Children's education and learning

We have lots of resources for children's education and learning needs.

Higher education

• The Open University has a range of free online courses
• Harvard university has a variety of free online courses
• The free Yale “happiness” course

Learn a new skill

There are many tutorials on Youtube where you can learn:

• • a new language
  • calligraphy
  • how to cook
  • how to take better selfies
  • how to speed read
  • how to juggle
  • how to do CPR
  • how to make a paper airplane (that actually flies)
  • how to survive a shark attack
  • the list goes on....
• Learn to code (HTML, CSS, PYTHON and more)
• Vamos theatre the UK's leading full mask theatre company has a series of videos where you can learn about different mask techniques
• Nikon School Free online courses on a range photography styles