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Performing arts on demand – offers on-demand access to critically acclaimed dance, opera and theatre performances from across the globe. Marquee.TV (free 30 days)
Daily updated list of free theatre, musicals and operas streaming around the world. Filmed on Stage (free)
Keep Going – Together is a resource from Perth Concert Hall + Theatre that brings together theatre, music and comedy.
Concerts from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra (Free)
Concerts, archive footage and live-streams from The Vienna State Opera (Free, paid or 30 day free trial)
Welcome the Berliner Philharmoniker into your home – on your TV, computer, tablet or smartphone. Live or on-demand from our archive. Digital Concert Hall (Use code BERLINPHIL for free access)
On demand concerts and opera from Teatro Massimo in Palermo. Teatro Massimo (Free)
OperaVision brings you the finest European operatic productions free, live and on-demand. Operavision.eu (Free)
Watch Opera North’s acclaimed staging of Wagner’s epic masterpiece online, in full, for free. Opera North – The Ring Cycle (Free)
Concerts from the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. (Free)
Watch Maxim Vengerov’s exclusive at-home concert for Classic FM. Classic FM (Free)
Met launches Nightly Met Opera Streams, a free series of encore Live in HD presentations. (Free)
The world’s leading classical music channel, medici.tv has offered access to the best of classical music to viewers worldwide since 2008. Medici.tv (paid – 35% discount available)
Noisy Nights are going digital! We are planning not just one but four nights of brand new music with Red Note musicians that you can enjoy from your own home. Red Note Ensemble (Free)
Tolbooth Projections is a series of live session videos produced by the Tolbooth arts venue in Stirling, Scotland. (Free)
Stingray Qello is the world’s leading streaming service for full-length concerts and music documentaries on-demand. (Free and paid)
Digital Theatre brings the live theatre experience to your screen by instantly streaming the best theatre productions from around the world anytime, anywhere. (Paid)
Archive of streamed productions from Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre (Free and paid)
Scenes for Survival – a crisis responsive artistic online project launched in association with BBC Scotland and BBC Arts’ Culture in Quarantine project. (Free)
Political Theatre for Everyone Everywhere. (Free)
A new digital series by Irish Rep and Michael Mellamphy featuring Irish Rep company members. Irish Rep will release a series of homemade videos on our social media channels from our incredible actors performing their favorite songs, poems and monologues from Irish & Irish American playwrights, poets, and musicians. Irish Rep – The Show Must Go On. (Free)
Join us every Thursday for much-loved National Theatre Live productions, free to stream on YouTube for seven days. National Theatre Live (Free)
The home of theatre in virtual reality. Experience great live performances on-demand, in stunning 360° virtual reality. Livr.co.uk (Paid – free trial)
Continuously updated online theatre performances from across the UK. What’s On Stage (Free)
Sadler’s Wells presents a programme of full-length dance performances and workshops online, to keep you entertained and connected through dance ?wherever you are in the world while our live stages are dark. (Free)
The Wind in the Willows the Musical available to stream online. (Free)
Quarantine Cabaret presents the first Scottish cabaret to take place on Instagram. Join comedians, poets and musicians online and enjoy the 20-minute-long sketches from your couch. (Free – instagram account required)
Live-stream Saturday night comedy show from comedy’s finest venue, The Stand. (Free)
Visit The Guilded Balloon for a live-stream show with a difference, where big names, newcomers and all those in between from the worlds of comedy, music, cabaret, spoken word and more perform from their homes. (Free)
MUBI features hand-picked films to watch or download. From forgotten gems to festival-fresh cinema. From cult classics to award-winning masterpieces. Changes daily. MUBI.com (Paid – 3 months £1)
Rent the latest releases, subscribe to classics and explore the best from the BFI, national and regional archives. British Film Institute (Paid and free)
Learn film in 40 days with Mark Cousins’s virtual course on Indiewire. (Free)
4D tour of Weymss Caves, Scotland (Free)
Virtual tour of the National Gallery, London (Free)
Virtual tours of the Louvre, Paris (Free, requires plugin)
Virtual tour of Windsor Castle (Free)
Virtual tour of the Vatican Museum (Free)
360 tour of Tate Modern. Follow Nick Grimshaw and Frances Morris on a whistlestop tour around Tate Modern’s Blavatnik Building (Free)
This virtual tour uses a new photographic technique to show The Courtauld Gallery in exceptional close-up quality. (Free)
Immerse yourself online using your computer, laptop or mobile and explore a selection of rooms at the National Portrait Gallery, London (Free)
The British Museum virtual tour – many more available through the Google Arts and Culture App. (Free)
A one-take journey through Russia’s iconic Hermitage Museum. (Free)
The Thyseen Museum, Madrid, Rembrandt Tour (Free)
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Italy exhibition tour. (Free)
Covid-19 closed this widow’s exhibition of her husband’s art after just one day, so Time Out put it online. Alfred Cohen: An American Artist in Europe (Free)
Explore the collections of the National Galleries of Scotland online. (Free)
Explore the collections of the National Museums of Scotland online. (Free)
Scottish Natural Gallery Sculpture Park virtual tour. (Free)
All are welcome to join The ATYN weekly drawing club from anywhere in the world. We can all sketch together, taking 2 hours to relax and create. (Paid)
Video clips from the archive of The National Review of Live Art, the UK’s foremost festival of performance, installation and video art. (Free)
Explore the collections of the National Library of Scotland Online (Free)
My Virtual Literary Festival, the online literary festival. Connecting readers and authors.
BBC Arts Culture in Quarantine – Bringing arts and culture into your home. (Free)
A selection of talks from The Sarabande Foundation which looks at some of the creative arts that Sarabande supports: art, fashion, film and jewellery. (Free)
Live streaming some of the top podcasts from Cosmic Shambles like Book Shambles and Science Shambles, presenting mixed bill comedy nights and conversations all without anyone leaving their home. (Free)
Open Culture brings together high-quality cultural & educational media. (Free)
The Internet Archive is building a digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form.
Luminate@Home is a series of films designed to inspire and guide you through a creative activity that can be done at home or in a care home. (Free)
Explore around 100 years of Scotland’s history captured by amateur and professional filmmakers. The National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive (formerly the Scottish Screen Archive) has something for everyone. (Free)
Cultural heritage learning blog from SCRAN which offers digital access to over half a million photographs, moving images and sounds from museums, galleries, libraries, archives and the media. (Free)
Acting as an online, interactive archive, Lost Edinburgh allows its followers to share, discuss and learn from the city’s colourful past through like minded individuals and even the city’s own residents. (Free)
Explore the collections of Historic Environment Scotland – archaeology, buildings, industrial and maritime heritage. (Free)
Dig deep into the history of places in Scotland and beyond at Pastmap.org to discover fascinating insights into hidden stories and histories of buildings, towns and cities.
Tobar an Dualchais contains a wealth of Gaelic and Scots recordings such as folklore, songs, music, history, poetry, traditions, stories and other information. (Free)
Explore Historic Environment Scotland’s object collection online.
Explore an online collection of traditional music from the Shetland Isles at School of Scottish Studies Archives.
The Britain from Above website features images from the Aerofilms collection, a unique aerial photographic archive. (Free)
NCAP is the National Collection of Aerial Photography. One of the largest collections of aerial imagery in the world, containing tens of millions of aerial images featuring historic events and places around the world. (Free)
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