Free virtual tours: 20 museums, zoo cams, parks and landmarks to explore as a team
Twenty free tours and live cams that one person can share on a call while the team picks where to go.
These free virtual tours work best as a group: one person shares their screen, and everyone else on the video call decides which room to enter, which animal to watch or which painting to zoom in on. We opened every link in October 2026 and kept only the ones that still load and still offer the tour. Give each stop 10 to 20 minutes, and one or two fit into a 30-minute team call.
7 free virtual museum tours
Self-guided tours you steer room by room. One person drives, everyone else calls out where to go.
1. Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History (opens in a new tab)
Room-by-room 3D tours of current and past exhibits; start in the Deep Time fossil hall.
2. The Louvre online tours (opens in a new tab)
Five tours of Petite Galerie exhibitions, from founding myths to the body in movement.
3. The Met 360° Project (opens in a new tab)
Six short 360-degree videos of The Met's spaces; drag the view while they play.
4. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (opens in a new tab)
Walk the galleries in Street View, one floor at a time, starting on the ground floor.
5. Musée d'Orsay, Paris (opens in a new tab)
A former Paris railway station that now holds art made between 1848 and 1914.
6. Uffizi Gallery, Florence (opens in a new tab)
Renaissance corridors in Street View; ask each person to stop the group at one painting.
7. Anne Frank House (opens in a new tab)
Step inside the hiding place room by room, from the bookcase entrance to the attic; suits a quiet session.
6 zoo and aquarium live cams
Live video, so check the cam is on and the animals are out before the call. Times are local to the zoo.
8. Monterey Bay Aquarium live cams (opens in a new tab)
Jellies, sea otters, sharks and the kelp forest; most cams run 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Pacific.
9. Georgia Aquarium webcams (opens in a new tab)
Nine cams, from beluga whales and sea otters to the giant Ocean Voyager tank.
10. San Diego Zoo live cameras (opens in a new tab)
Giant pandas, koalas and hippos at the zoo, plus giraffes and tigers at the Safari Park.
11. Smithsonian's National Zoo webcams (opens in a new tab)
Giant pandas, lions, elephants and a colony of naked mole-rats in Washington, D.C.
12. Houston Zoo webcams (opens in a new tab)
The giraffe feeding platform, gorillas, chimpanzees, a rhino and flamingos, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Central.
13. Aquarium of the Pacific webcams (opens in a new tab)
Penguins above and below the water, Shark Lagoon and a tropical reef in Long Beach.
4 national park tours and live cams
Two live webcam pages, one seasonal bear cam and one guided online story that works any time of year.
14. Yellowstone: Old Faithful livestream (opens in a new tab)
Live video of the Upper Geyser Basin; time the call to the park's posted eruption prediction.
15. Hawaiʻi Volcanoes webcams (opens in a new tab)
USGS cameras on Kīlauea's summit crater and Mauna Loa, running around the clock.
16. Katmai bear cams (opens in a new tab)
Brown bears fishing for salmon at Brooks Falls, live from about late June to early October, highlights after.
3 landmarks to stand inside
Short stops that work well as the last ten minutes of a call.
18. Sistine Chapel, Vatican Museums (opens in a new tab)
Several 360-degree views inside the chapel; zoom in on Michelangelo's ceiling and The Last Judgment.
19. Stonehenge 360 (opens in a new tab)
Stand inside the stone circle, tap hotspots, then switch to the live view of the sky above.
20. Hall of Mirrors, Palace of Versailles (opens in a new tab)
Walk the length of the hall in Street View and count the chandeliers as you go.
How to run a virtual tour on a team call
One host keeps time and reads the chat; one driver shares the screen and moves. A 30-minute plan:
- 0 to 3 minutes. Say hello, name the driver who shares the screen, and explain that anyone can call a stop.
- 3 to 6 minutes. Put three tours from this page in a chat poll and go with the winner.
- 6 to 20 minutes. The driver moves slowly; people type left, right or zoom in chat, and the host reads them out.
- 20 to 25 minutes. Spot-it round: the host names five things to find, and the first person to point one out scores.
- 25 to 30 minutes. Everyone names one favorite thing they saw, and the team picks next month's stop.
Tips for the host and the driver
- Open the tour in its own browser tab before the call and share only that tab.
- Give the driver role to whoever has the fastest connection, not the most senior person.
- Turn on sound sharing for the videos and narrated tours; Street View walks are silent.
- Check a live cam an hour ahead: animals sleep, and some cams go dark outside zoo hours.
- Keep a second tour ready in another tab in case the first one stalls.
- Over 15 people? Put each breakout room on a different tour and have one person per room report back.
Want something to play after the tour? Our Zoom games need nothing but the call, and these virtual scavenger hunt ideas turn any room into a race.
Questions to ask during a virtual tour
Drop one in chat whenever the driver pauses. They work for any museum, cam or landmark.
- If you could take one thing home from this room, what would it be?
- Which piece here would you hang behind you on your next video call?
- Closest guess picks the next stop: what year was this made?
- What would you name the animal on screen right now?
- Which stop would you visit in person first, and who would you take?
- What is one detail on screen nobody else has pointed out yet?
- If this place sold a souvenir named after our team, what would it be?
- What would you pay for a ticket to see this in person?
Want a guide who runs the whole thing?
A free tour needs a driver and a host from your team. For a call where you just show up, a hosted game brings the travel feel with a guide: Beach Vacate-tion Escape Room strands the group on a tropical island full of puzzles, and Oregon Trail is a story-driven adventure with team decisions along the way.
Both run live on Zoom by default, or Teams, Google Meet or Webex on request. Book about 2 weeks ahead. See every hosted virtual trivia game and virtual escape room, or get a free quote.
