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Explore initiatives & stories from UNESCO networks.

From World Heritage sites to Creative Cities, UNESCO partners and teams join forces against Covid-19, to bring out the best in our shared humanity through culture, information and solidarity.

Discover more initiatives from across the globe, and share your own!

While billions of people are requested to #stayathome in response to the Covid-19 outbreak, we need to tighten the bonds in our shared humanity, through culture, knowledge and information sharing, in a spirit of solidarity. Please share the initiative(s) you may have discovered around you that are worth seeing.

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Saudi Arabia initiative(s)

Armenia initiative(s)

  • Summer holidays with the library

  • Aram Khachaturian Museum and "Arloopa" application

  • Museum online programmes

Ecuador initiative(s)

Australia initiative(s)

  • The Golden Age Clubs

  • The Jam Project

  • Caring Mums

  • Art education In Australia during the COVID-19 lockdown

  • Live from Melbourne Recital Center

  • Mona Museum

  • Australian libraries responding to COVID-19

  • National Gallery of Australia

  • International Federation of Arts Councils and Cultural Agencies (IFACCA)

Portugal initiative(s)

Azerbaijan initiative(s)

India initiative(s)

Latvia initiative(s)

  • Participants of virtual parade “Wear Your Traditional Clothing to Celebrate Latvia”

    Virtual parade “Wear your traditional clothing to celebrate Latvia”

  • Diaries in the Time of Pandemic 2020

  • Diaries in the Time of Pandemic 2020

  • Diaries in the Time of Pandemic 2020

Finland initiative(s)

France initiative(s)

Italy initiative(s)

Indonesia initiative(s)

  • The Virtual Art Museum "Memento Mori Covid 19" Towards the Real Museum

  • Creative Business Training of Youth

  • Indonesian Arts Coalition

United States initiative(s)

  • COVID-19 Engineering Challenge

  • NY Phil Plays On

  • U.S. Coalition of Cities against Racism and Discrimination: Call for action

  • United States: “Covid-19: What Mayors Need to Know”

  • Bang on a Can Marathon

  • Keep your child reading, learning, and having fun with Simon Kids!

  • Free remote learning resources for grades K-12

  • Free access to 40,000 digital books

  • YALLSTAYHOME Book Festival

  • Coronavirus: A Book for Children, a guide for young readers offered by Candlewick Press

  • Collection of stories are free on Audible, an Amazon Company

  • Project MUSE makes scholarly content available for free on his platform

  • Poet's House Live Stream

  • History responds to COVID-19 Archives, New York Historical Society

  • #ColorOurCollections Museums and libraries are offering free downloadable coloring pages

  • Playbill NYC Broadway Shows

  • J. Paul Getty Museum

  • The Metropolitan Museum

  • Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

  • National Gallery of Art, USA

  • Guggenheim Museum

  • Detroit Symphony

  • Met on demand

  • The Smithsonian Museum

  • Virtual museums

  • Virtual visit of Frank Lloyd Wright's Norman Lykes Home

  • Moma Art "Art et idées modernes"

  • 3D tour of Thunder Bay shipwrecks

  • Los Angeles COVID response website

  • San Francisco Moratoirum and COVID-19 response website

  • Boston Coronavirus Response Center

  • Boston City online platform

  • Covid 19 emergency relief fund

  • New York City COVID-19 website

  • New York Library

  • Yellowstone Park

Honduras initiative(s)

Panama initiative(s)

Switzerland initiative(s)

  • Cultura e Salute

  • Mesures prises par le gouvernement suisse pour la culture

  • Mesures institutionnelles prises par la Suisse

  • Support to the most vulnerable

  • Awareness-raising: solidarity with migrants

  • Hotline pour les seniors

  • Hébergements d'urgence

  • Permanences téléphoniques du BLI

  • Informations COVID-19 en plusieurs langues

  • Centre du droit de l'art de l'Université de Genève

  • Bibliothèque numérique romande

  • Rhaetian Railway in the Albula

Turkey initiative(s)

  • COVID-19 Film and Television Relief Fund by Netflix, Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) and Cinema & Broadcasting Union of Turkey

  • The uniting power of arts and needs of the cultural field during the pandemic

  • Stay Home Save Lives - City of Kadıköy (İstanbul) supports its residents with a special emphasis on the most vulnerable

  • Collection of the Pera Museum, Turkey

Ireland initiative(s)

  • Visual Artists Ireland

    Visual Artists Ireland - COVID-19 Response

  • Galway 2020 European Capital of Culture

Canada initiative(s)

  • Learning Inside Out

  • Explore the museums of Québec from the comforts of your couch

  • Québec Open School - Online Learning Platform

  • L'École ouverte : plateforme éducative en ligne

  • Dossier spécial - Éducation des adultes et Covid 19

  • COVID-19/paysage urbain montréalais : constats et perspectives

  • National Trust Canada

  • Canada National Arts Centre

  • Social Distancing Festival

  • Unison

Chile initiative(s)

  • pintura_personasmayores_chile

    Pintura en Casa

  • Chile for Children

  • Historic National Museum, Chile

  • Museo a Cielo Abierto en San Miguel

  • Museo La Pincoya

Macedonia initiative(s)

  • Virtual tour at MoCA Skopje

United Kingdom initiative(s)

  • ACWW Covid-19 Impact Assessment

  • Soho Theatre on demand

  • Barbican digital channels

  • The mosaic room

  • London Sinfonietta's Live

  • The Victoria and Albert Museum

  • Stuck Inside

  • London Buddhist Centre online

  • Live from Liverpool Philharmonic Hall’ Digital Programmes

  • Penguin publication of exclusive essays

  • Royal Shakespeare Company Online

  • BBC Culture in Quarantine

  • Cambridge University Press offers free access to textbooks

  • English National Ballet at HOME

  • Life under COVID-19 Archives, Public Source

  • Best free virtual tours for kids

  • Future Learn

  • Chatter Pack

  • Virtual visit British Museum, Great Britain

  • Walker Art Gallery Liverpool

  • Virtual Dive Trails of Protected Wreck Sites

  • German destroyer V8

  • Scapa Flow historic wreck site

  • 3D reproduction of HMS Anne wreck

  • Manchester City of Literature

  • Edinburgh's Scottish Poetry Library

Belgium initiative(s)

  • L'intime confinement

  • Chambres avec vues au pôle muséal Les Bateliers

  • Marthe Donas. De la figuration à l'abstraction.

  • #CentraleFromHome

  • Mise en ligne des collections de l'Espace gallo-romain d'Ath

  • La Culture belge francophone à la maison

  • Soutien aux médias et aux journalistes

  • Création d'un fonds d’urgence pour le secteur culturel belge francophone

  • Musée à ciel ouvert

Benin initiative(s)

  • Apprendrenligne.com

  • Apprendrenligne.com

  • Jeux pour enfants du Musée historique d'Abomey, Benin

Japan initiative(s)

Spain initiative(s)

Estonia initiative(s)

Mexico initiative(s)

Yemen initiative(s)

  • Webinar - ResiliArt Yemen

  • Production of Multimedia Content on Youth-led Initiatives to Prevent COVID-19

  • Raise-awareness on COVID-19 and Valorize Youth Prevention

  • Small Grants Supporting Cultural Associations and Economic Resilience

  • Income-Generating Opportunities for Urban Youth in Times of COVID-19

Ukraine initiative(s)

Serbia initiative(s)

  • The Cultural Heritage Browser: Unified Portal for the Search of Cultural Heritage of the Republic of Serbia

  • Digital Contents - Serbian Cultural Institutions

  • Facebook page - Digitization in culture

Slovenia initiative(s)

  • Participative blog on everyday life

  • CoronavirusMediaWatch

  • Ljubljana mesto literature

Egypt initiative(s)

Kenya initiative(s)

Bulgaria initiative(s)

  • Gabrovo Carnival

Jordan initiative(s)

Norway initiative(s)

  • World Citizen Report and Employee Report

Lebanon initiative(s)

United Arab Emirates initiative(s)

Netherlands initiative(s)

  • Dutch Nationale Opera & Ballet

  • Concertgebouw Orchestra Online

  • Elsevier offers COVID-19 resources for librarians, campuses and health professionals

  • COVID-19 and the Global Library Field, The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)

  • Van Gogh Museum

  • Rijksmuseum, the Netherlands

Poland initiative(s)

China initiative(s)

  • Hubei Provincial Museum

  • Wuhan’s Call to fight the COVID-19 pandemic

  • Free services for White Angels in Chengdu

  • Free services for White Angels

  • National Museum of China

  • Forbidden City

  • Palace Museum

  • Virtual tours of the Palace Museum of China

  • iCity

  • UNESCO World Heritage sites in China

  • Great Wall of China

  • WE ARE ONE: A Global Film Festival

  • Coalition of Latin American and Caribbean Cities against Racism, Discrimination and Xenophobia: Call for action

  • European Coalition of Cities Against Racism: Call for action

  • European Coalition of Cities Against Racism: Call for action

  • Latin America: Cities for Global Health

  • Smartify App

  • One World : Together at Home

  • Google Art and Culture

  • Visite virtuelle de collections de 14 institutions de Paris Musées

  • Virtual tour of the RM Titanic

  • The Forgotten Wrecks Projec and the HMD John Mitchell

  • The Thistlegorm Project

  • Check out 30 famous World Heritage sites you can virtually visit on Google Earth while social distancing

  • 101 ways to travel without leaving your house

  • Living In Lockdown: The 7 Best UNESCO World Heritage Sites You Can Visit Without Leaving Home

  • Huit concerts intimes pour public confiné

  • Festival international de film sur l'art

  • Artips

  • Virtual Skyview Tour

  • ICCROM publications

  • Getty Conservation Institute

  • American Institute of Conservation Learning Community

  • Open Heritage 3D

  • Air Vuz

  • Google Maps Treks

Sweden initiative(s)

Kyrgyzstan initiative(s)

Russia initiative(s)

Germany initiative(s)

  • Springer Nature offers free access to a range of essential textbooks from all disciplines

  • #positivePost

  • Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

  • Pergamon Museum

  • Bauhaus expo

  • Igor Levit - Live Concert on twitter

  • Carolingian Westwork and Civitas Corvey

  • Des dunklen Lichtes voll

Malta initiative(s)

Uruguay initiative(s)

  • City of Montevideo public fund of 10 million pesos

  • Virtual Arts Museum of Uruguay

  • Museum of pre-Colombian and Indigenous Art (MAPI)

  • Uruguay 360

  • Comuna Mujer Program (Women's Community Program)

  • Covid 19 web page

Kazakhstan initiative(s)

Senegal initiative(s)

Tunisia initiative(s)

El Salvador initiative(s)

Costa Rica initiative(s)

  • Directory of national design stores

  • Audiovisual gallery of the National Theater of Costa Rica

  • Costa Rica Film Centre

  • National Museum of Costa Rica

  • Costa Rican Virtual Art Gallery

Nigeria initiative(s)

Madagascar initiative(s)

  • Madagascar Ministry of Culture has distributed aid, bags of rice, to artists and professionals.

Austria initiative(s)

  • Information Campaign towards Awareness-Raising and Sensitization of Immigrants.

  • Vienna Opera

Algeria initiative(s)

Uganda initiative(s)

Brazil initiative(s)

Iraq initiative(s)

  • Literature and Arts help Slemani cope with COVID-19

Singapore initiative(s)

  • Asia-Europe Museum Network (ASEMUS)

  • Roots

  • National Gallery Singapore

Cambodia initiative(s)

Vietnam initiative(s)

  • Vietnam National Fine Arts Museum

South Korea initiative(s)

  • National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art

  • National Museum of Korea

  • Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra

Sierra Leone initiative(s)

  • Collection du Musée national de Sierra Leone

South Africa initiative(s)

  • The Johannesburg Art Gallery

  • Virtual visit to the Apartheid Museum of South Africa

  • Fossil Hominid Sites of South Africa

Argentina initiative(s)

  • Online collection of the Latin American Art Museum of Buenos Aires.

  • Sites de mémoire, Argentine

Peru initiative(s)

  • National Museum of Archeology, Antropology and History of Peru

  • Visita virtual Peruvian Museums

Guatemala initiative(s)

  • Museum of Modern Art Carlos Merida, Guatemala

Cuba initiative(s)

  • National Museum of Fine Arts of Havana

Colombia initiative(s)

Vatican initiative(s)

  • Virtual visit of the Sistine Chapel

  • Discover the Vatican Museums

Croatia initiative(s)

  • Collections of the Croatian History Museum

  • The Gnalić shipwreck

  • European Young Heritage Professionals Forum

Bosnia and Herzegovina initiative(s)

  • Horizon 2020 iMARECULTURE project

Iceland initiative(s)

  • Virtual Dive on the Wreck of the Melckmeyt (1659)

  • Reykjavík Bókmenntaborg UNESCO

Israel initiative(s)

Greece initiative(s)

Bermuda initiative(s)

  • The Bermuda 100 project

Cyprus initiative(s)

Morocco initiative(s)

Namibia initiative(s)

Niger initiative(s)

Tanzania initiative(s)

Myanmar initiative(s)

Malaysia initiative(s)

Philippines initiative(s)