Museum & Venue
Open the doors to culture. For everyone. From anywhere.
Our virtual tours help museums, galleries, and cultural venues showcase their spaces, exhibits, and stories in unforgettable ways, from anywhere in the world.
We’re the first virtual tour provider to offer accessible, fully customisable virtual tour editor-powered tours tailored to the arts and culture sector. Our platform is built to amplify engagement, educate, and generate revenue, without physical limits. We help you launch a new exhibition with ease while reaching global audiences. Our tours also allow you to catalogue past exhibitions to ensure your work is timeless and can continue to be shown around the world.
Our suite of virtual tour features for museums & venues
Our museum & venue virtual tours are custom-built to your requirements
Customisable Showcases
Let users explore galleries and artefacts in immersive 360° detail.
Highlight permanent collections or rotating shows with info panels, audio, or video, giving audiences access to rich cultural experiences from anywhere in the world. Easily update the changing spaces while keeping a catalogue of older exhibitions.
Audio & Guided Narration
Bring curators, artists or historians directly into the experience.
Add voiceovers, multi-language narration or oral histories to guide users through your exhibitions and bring deeper context to each space or object.
Interactive Floorplans
Help visitors understand layout and flow with visual floor maps.
Display clickable gallery maps that let people jump between rooms, discover hidden gems, and orient themselves, especially useful for large or multi-storey venues.
World-Class Images
Capture your spaces with world-class photography
Capture every intricacy of your space sand exhibits as we only shoot using the latest in 360 technology. We pay attention to detail through every step from planning to post-processing. Our top images ensure you get the best quality for your tour.
Accessibility for Everyone
Showcase your exhibitions to everyone, no limitations
All our tours come with our customised accessibility widget with the option to add extra accessibility features. Including BSL videos, ambient sounds, step-free routes, day/night mode, and more.
Timeless Exhibitions
Catalogue your exhibitions to create timeless showcases
Capture your showcases and use them forever catalogued in your virtual tour. As your physical space changes, your older exhibits can still be shown around the world in high-definition images that show every detail.
Choose your museum or venue sector
Virtual tours for museums
Showcase permanent collections or temporary exhibitions in depth. Museums can digitise their entire visitor journey or focus on key exhibitions. This digital showcase enables access for schools, researchers, or distant visitors. Embed curator videos, archive materials or audio guides to support learning and preserve the impact of heritage stories year-round.
Interactive virtual tours for art galleries
Promote exhibitions, commissions, and emerging artists to global audiences.
Virtual tours give visitors, collectors, and curators a sense of the space before they arrive, letting them explore exhibitions online. Ideal for galleries looking to promote access and extend audience engagement beyond the run of a show.
Virtual tours for theatres
Offer behind-the-scenes access or orientation for audiences and performers.
Use immersive walkthroughs to show stage views, seating layouts, dressing rooms or front-of-house areas. Whether for audience planning, access reassurance or artist liaison, virtual tours help everyone feel confident before stepping into your venue, especially for new productions or event bookings.
Virtual tours for education & outreach hubs
Expand school, university, or lifelong learning access with digital tools.
Create learning-friendly virtual experiences for students of all ages, from simple exhibit walkthroughs to curriculum-linked resources. Include differentiated layers for primary, secondary, or higher education, or support SEN and neurodiverse learning with clear layouts and flexible media.
Immersive virtual tours for heritage & historic buildings
Preserve and interpret cultural spaces for the next generation.
Capture historically significant architecture, rare interiors, or fragile environments in high-resolution detail. Offer virtual public access to limited areas, interpret restoration projects, or use overlays and video layers to enrich your digital storytelling with archive footage and expert commentary.
Immersive virtual tours for wedding venues
Inspire couples with a stunning preview of their perfect day. Virtual tours allow prospective clients to explore ceremony spaces, reception rooms, gardens and accommodation options in detail. Highlight features like natural light, décor styles, and guest flow, while adding optional links for packages, testimonials, or contact. Ideal for busy couples planning remotely.
Museum & venue stats that speak for themselves
Virtual tours are transforming how museums, galleries, and cultural venues connect with audiences. These sector-specific statistics demonstrate the rise of digital engagement and how immersive technology is expanding reach beyond physical walls.
Users spend just under 7 minutes engaging with our virtual tours
3,643,234 scene views across our virtual tours
250,853 visitors across our virtual tours
View our featured museum & venue virtual tours
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National Space Centre
Explore how the National Space Centre brings its world-class exhibits to life with our 360° virtual tour, featuring tailored audience experiences, immersive low-light imagery, and interactive navigation designed to inspire every visitor.
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The Donkey Sanctuary
Explore how The Donkey Sanctuary brought their gardens, donkeys, and facilities to life with our 360° virtual tour, featuring interactive maps, customised branding, seamless navigation options, and industry-leading WCAG 2.1 accessibility compliance.
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Topsham Museum
Explore how Topsham Museum brought its maritime heritage to life digitally with a 360° virtual tour, blending immersive panoramic scenes, accessibility features, and staff-managed content to widen reach and engagement.
Don’t take our word for it
Check out what our clients say about us
"The Virtual Tour Company have been fantastic to work with and guided us every step of the way in terms of achieving our overall objective of creating a virtual tour that is also engaging and interactive. We are extremely pleased with the results and would certainly recommend working with the Virtual Tour Company."
FAQs for Museum & Venue Virtual Tours
Yes, your team can update media, descriptions, or rooms via the virtual tour editor. We design around flexibility and evolving displays.
Definitely. Add embedded ticket links, shop products, or membership sign-ups directly inside the tour with clear calls to action.
Yes, we design tours with teachers and students in mind. Add curriculum resources, voiceovers, worksheets or links for educators.
Absolutely. Our tours are optimised for phones, tablets, desktops and interactive screens, ideal for both public use and in-gallery displays.
Yes. Tours can feature high-res artwork, 3D scans, video interviews and object detail overlays for a multimedia experience.
Yes, you can build private versions or limit access via password, internal links or custom domains for donors, trustees or training use.
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