Dear Bruce Contemporaries,

We hope you and your families are staying safe and healthy.

As you may have seen in today's email from Museum Director Robert Wolterstorff, the Bruce Museum is closed and has cancelled all upcoming activities. In addition, the Annual Bruce Gala on May 9 has been cancelled. They will continue to send updates via email.

The Bruce Contemporaries Committee has also decided to postpone our two upcoming events: the private art collection tour on April 2 and the Glass House tour in May. We hope to be able to reschedule these events soon and get some great new events on the calendar for the summer and fall.

As we’re all home and looking for fun things to do, we wanted to share some interesting arts and science-related links and activities we’ve found for you!

The Bruce Museum Goes Digital

The Museum is highlighting its online offerings, and will expand upon its options to support digital workshops, lesson plans, and enrichment activities for all ages. Read more at https://brucemuseum.org/site/news_detail/bruce-museum-goes-digital

Also, be sure to follow the Bruce Museum on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

Museums and galleries around the world are providing virtual tours, exhibitions and programming online:

· American Museum of Natural History, New York

· Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago

· British Museum, London

· Guggenheim Museum, New York

· Louvre, Paris

· Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

· MoMA, New York

· Musée d'Orsay, Paris

· The National Gallery, London

· National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

· Uffizi Gallery, Florence

· Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

· Google Arts & Culture Collections: including many of the above museums, Google has teamed up with over 2,500 museums and galleries around the world to bring virtual tours online

Zoos are featuring some fun content, including live webcam viewings of pandas, penguins and beluga whales:

· San Diego Zoo

· Cincinnati Zoo

· Georgia Aquarium

· Monterey Bay Aquarium

Explore some outdoor wonders:

· Travel through the trails of national parks:

1. Yellowstone National Park

2. Yosemite National Park

3. Alaska's Kenai Fjords National Park

4. Hawaii Volcanoes National Park

· Tour the Great Wall of China: a tour of the Great Wall of China