Many governments have implemented social distancing and quarantine. These best practices help to provide entertainment and distraction while complying with the imposed measures.
Municipality broadcasts videos for children
Besiktas municipality provides children with colourful educational videos through its YouTube Channel to make social isolation more bearable.
British museum publishes collection online
The redeveloped online collection gives access to the museum’s historical objects in high definition.
Free online state library
Access to digital library service is opened up online, to offer reading materials while closing the physical libraries.
Online Art Festival
Artists, publishers and agencies joined together to give everyone at home the option to attend concerts while staying at home. For a series of days, the online Festival “EU Fico em Casa” showcased art performances on Instagram.
Platform livestreams sports classes
An Austrian sports association offers a broad variety of live streamed sports classes.
Documenting the coronacrisis with objects
A museum in Vienna documents the coronavirus crisis with crowdsourced pictures of personal objects.
Digital workshops help children to stay in touch with each other
A project started by the Emilia Romagna region helps children to maintain relationships with each other and strengthens their imagination skills.
Drive-in cinemas
Drive-in cinemas are safe way to watch movies in times of physical distancing.
Online pub quizzes
Pub quiz fans can continue their hobby online from the comfort of their home.
Decentralized cultural festival
Over the summer, the City of Vienna is organizing a cultural festival that takes place at 25 locations across the city.
Setting up a situation centre to develop new childcare offers for the summer of 2020
The city of Essen set up a “Situation Centre Summer Holidays” with the aim to develop childcare, leisure activities and education for Essen’s children and young people for the 2020 summer holidays.
A French culture magazine makes its online content available for free
To continue to provide its readers with the latest news on culture and theatre, the French magazine LASCENE makes its articles available online free of charge.