Most have turned to digital devices to entertain themselves and maintain contact with the outside world.
Chats with friends, video conferences with family, Postings on social media, movies and series are some of the most popular tools to survive social isolation.
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Technology has even allowed people to keep fit: many who used to go to a gym, pilates or yoga class now receive videos from their teachers, with instructions on how to practice at home.
But what about cultural life?
With the closure of most public spaces and a ban on agglomerate, hundreds of concerts have been cancelled these days and museums have been closed around the world.
However, the physical closure of these spaces has not meant the end of these activities that enrich us so much. Many, have simply moved Online.
Here are a series of concerts and exhibitions that you can access for free (and without moving from home!).
Music
If you’re a Coldplay fan, you can’t miss the concert that the british band’s leader gave on March 16 from his home.
It was part of a World Health Organization (WHO) initiative called #TogetherAtHome (together at home). Martin – who confessed to being nervous about this new experience – urged other musicians to follow suit.
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The Spanish singer-songwriter and his Colombian partner had to cancel part of the tour they were doing together. Faced with this situation, they decided to offer their fans a show impromptu that they broadcast on YouTube from Miami on March 15. They titled it with the hashtag: #LaGiraSeQuedaEnCasa.
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Laura Pausini and Tiziano Ferro
Italian musicians wanted to encourage their compatriots, the most affected by covid-19 outside China. They did so by recording a conversation between them via Instagram (she from Italy, him from Los Angeles), followed by an impromptu concert.
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As part of WHO’s initiative #TogetherAtHome, the American musician gave a concert from his hall on March 17. Legend, who claimed he wasn’t wearing pants, had two “guest stars”: his famous wife Chrissy Teigen (who appeared wearing a towel) and their daughter, Luna.
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The American artist, who, like many of her compatriots decided to self-isolate herself, took advantage of her time at home to learn to play the piano. Through his Instagram account he shared a mini “piano concert-lesson”, in which he performs the Bob Dylan classic”Make You Feel My Love“.
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If you like the music of the rosarino singer-songwriter, you can’t miss the concert via Streaming from home on Friday, March 20 from 21.30 in Argentina (0:30GMT).
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Museums
If visual art is more your thing, don’t worry; there are also many ways to enjoy the best of world painting and sculpture, without having to leave your home.
The best part: you don’t have to pay anything! You can tour the best museums in the world without having to buy a plane ticket and without paying entrance fee.
Here are the most famous samples you can browse from your computer, tablet or phone over the internet.
Image copyrightGetTY IMAGESImage caption Have you always dreamed of touring the Louvre? Take advantage of quarantine to visit some of your samples online. Louvre Museum (Paris)
There are three exhibits that can be explored virtually: the Egyptian antiquities, the remains of the Louvre moat and the Gallery d’Apollon, which was destroyed by a fire in 1661 and recently restored.
You can take the virtual tour (in French or English) here
British Museum (London)
The page Online the museum offers information on each of the galleries, with images of the most outstanding works. But if you want to take a tour as if you were there, you can do it using Google Street View.
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Through its Instagram account, the museum offers a series of guided tours.
You can see them here
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City)
The MET page offers some virtual samples in 360o and the possibility to zoom in to look in detail at some of his most famous works. You can also use the Street View to explore the various galleries.
You can “enter” the museum here
Uffizi Gallery (Florence)
The Italian museum has a very complete and detailed online collection. Entering its HyperVisions section (in Italian or English), you can see some of its samples, with images of the works in HD and descriptions thereof.
You can see them here
Image copyrightGetTY IMAGESImage captionYou can also tour one of Mexico’s most popular museums and admire pre-Columbian art. National Museum of Anthropology (Mexico City)
Many Latin American art museums can also be explored virtually thanks to Google Street View. One of them is this, the largest museum in Mexico, which goes through the history of the indigenous peoples of that country and is one of the most popular tourist attractions of the Mexican capital.
You can take your virtual tour here
