Even if you can't get to Washington D.C. to visit the Smithsonian's National Postal Museum, you can still get a small taste of what it's like to tour the exhibits — virtually.
With a high-speed internet connection, you can "walk" through the museum's exhibits, turning around for a 360-degree view, zooming in for a closer look, craning your neck to see the ceiling, etc. According to the announcement by the NPM:
"The museum enjoys almost 3 million visits to its websites each year from more than 170 countries. These new virtual tours provide the museum an exciting new way to engage these audiences around the world who are not able to visit in person. Desktop and mobile versions seamlessly deliver 28 inter-connected, high-resolution panoramas of our museum spaces to whatever devices are accessing the tours, be it 30-inch monitors or smart phones."Desktop version: www.npm.si.edu/virtualtour/desktop/
It took me a few minutes to figure out all the controls and find my way around the virtual exhibit, but once I did, it's great! Take a look!
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| Photo from the National Postal Museum |
There is a national postal museum??? I had no idea! Putting that on my list for our DC trip (not sure when we'll go, but probably in the next year or so). The virtual tour looks so cool though! Off to check it out....
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