{"id":783,"date":"2020-04-08T03:23:44","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T03:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelcommunication.net\/?p=25241"},"modified":"2020-05-02T00:35:45","modified_gmt":"2020-05-02T00:35:45","slug":"heritage-malta-opens-virtual-doors-to-its-cultural-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/global-travel-news\/heritage-malta-opens-virtual-doors-to-its-cultural-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"Heritage Malta Opens Virtual Doors to its Cultural Sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/travelcommunication.net\/destinations\/europe\/heritage-malta-opens-virtual-doors-to-its-cultural-sites\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Heritage Malta Opens Virtual Doors to its Cultural Sites-TRAVELINDEX\" src=\"https:\/\/travelcommunication.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Heritage-Malta-Opens-Virtual-Doors-to-its-Cultural-Sites-TRAVELINDEX-300x207.jpg\" alt=\"Heritage Malta Opens Virtual Doors to its Cultural Sites\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" \/><\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<p>Gozo, Malta, April 8, 2020 \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/travelindex.com\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">travelindex.com<\/a> \/ Just as the sun was about to rise, 7,000 viewers experienced the annual Spring Equinox as seen from the Mnajdra Temples, thanks to Heritage Malta\u2019s live stream of the event which was hosted by curator Katya Stroud. Till now, the number of visitors has increased to 27,000 and counting, as per the national agency\u2019s Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p>The event was one of Heritage Malta\u2019s many creative initiatives catering for the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, which include virtual accessibility to National Museums and sites that are temporarily closed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur initiatives aim to nourish a sense of hope, particularly through the presence of prehistoric sites that have survived adversities over thousands of years,\u201d explained Noel Zammit, Heritage Malta\u2019s CEO. \u201cMore than ever, such moments help us to understand and appreciate the value of sites which have been recognised as UNESCO World Heritage Sites.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A collaboration between Heritage Malta and the tech-giant Google is now giving internet users the unique opportunity to virtually visit several of the agency\u2019s national museums and sites through the online platform Google Arts &amp; Culture.<\/p>\n<p>This collaboration brings our cultural sites at par with other major international institutions, including the Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay in Paris, the Van Gogh Museum in Netherlands, the National Gallery of Arts in Washington, Museo Frida Kahlo in Mexico, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and many more.<\/p>\n<p>Virtual tours will immerse the viewer into the solemn grounds of the \u0126al Saflieni Hypogeum, walk you along the unique artefacts exhibited at the National Museums of Archaeology in Malta and Gozo, impress you with the exquisite colourful mosaic floors at the Domvs Romana, or accompany you through the turbulent times of the Second World War, at the National War Museum in Fort St Elmo.<\/p>\n<p>Heritage Malta invites the public to open these virtual doors to amazing discoveries, and to strive to visit them personally once the ongoing troubles are over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gozo, Malta, April 8, 2020 \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/travelindex.com\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">travelindex.com<\/a> \/ Just as the sun was about to rise, 7,000 viewers experienced the annual Spring Equinox as seen from the Mnajdra Temples, thanks to Heritage Malta\u2019s live stream of the event which was hosted by curator Katya Stroud. Till now, the number of visitors has increased to 27,000 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4934,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-travel-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}