Leisure time
Play
- https://bunch.live/ – Bunch is a group video chat app for live mobile games. Play online multiplayer games with friends while you’re on group video chat. It’s like playing games with your friends together at a house party!
- https://en.boardgamearena.com/ – Another free game platform – this one is dedicated to boardgames. You can play as a group live, or take your turn whenever suits, completing a game over days or weeks.
- https://www.mobilityware.com/jigsawpuzzle – A free jigsaw puzzle app for iOS and Android. Hosts a library of thousands of jigsaws, and delivers a new free one each day. Users are able to share their completed puzzles with friends. You could use this app for a jigsaw competition!
Visit
- https://artsandculture.google.com/ – Art, culture, nature from all around the world is gathered here, hanging out on google, ready for you to jump in and explore.
- https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/channel/ – Head to the NGV via your living room – visit its current exhibitions and learn about the art on display.
- https://britishmuseum.withgoogle.com/ – Time travel across history, place and subject at the British museum. Choose where you’d like to go and an interactive timeline will take you there, and tell you all about it.
- http://www.bcn.cat/museupicasso/en/visiting/virtual-tours.html – Check out the Picasso Museum in Barcelona. The virtual tour guides you around the palace in which the collection is housed, and gives you the low-down on some of the city’s history. (Take a look at the paintings via the online collection).
Listen
- https://www.vertigomusic.com/ – Create some great playlists, or dig out your favourite albums and listen to them together using this plug-in for Apple Music or Spotify.
- https://www.metopera.org/nightly-opera-stream/ – Get on board with some audio-visual drama and tune in to the Met Opera’s nightly stream.
- https://www.digitalconcerthall.com/en/home – Experience one of the world’s greatest orchestras for free – visit the Berlin Philharmonic’s Digital Concert Hall!
- https://www.livingroom-live.com/ – Feel like some soothing or invigorating recitals? These classical musicians are streaming regularly – get your group together and settle down for a listen.