Virtual Tours of Presidential and First Lady Sites

With our current quarantine situation due to the COVID-19 health crisis, no one will be traveling for a while.  Hopefully the situation will improve shortly but until then, virtual travel is our best bet.  In researching Presidential and First Lady sites for my checklist, I found that many sites have online virtual and video tours.  It would be a fun project to tour each site with your kids!  We are picking one a day to “tour.”  If we can’t check off the sites in person, we can at least visit virtually!  To learn more about each President, including portraits, papers, and collections, search on Google’s Arts and Culture site.

• Arkansas:
  • Clinton Birthplace Home Historical Site – video 
  • Clinton Presidential Center – virtual tour
• California:
  • Nixon Presidential Library – video virtual tour, virtual tour of birthplace and museum
  • Reagan Presidential Library – virtual tour (including of the Air Force One pavilion!) and curriculum
• Georgia:
  • Wilson Boyhood home – videos
  • F.D. Roosevelt Little White House – virtual tour and educational resources
  • Carter National Historic Site – cell phone tours ( pair with Google Maps)
  • Carter Presidential Library – virtual tour and educational resources
• Illinois:
  • Lincoln:
    • New Salem Historic Site – virtual tour
    • Lincoln Home Historic Site – virtual tour
• Iowa:
  • Hoover Birthplace National Historic Site – video 
• Massachusetts:
  • Adams National Historical Park – virtual tour (scroll to bottom of page)
  • Coolidge Presidential Library and Museum – video tour
  • Kennedy:
    • National Historic Site – cell phone tour (pair with Google Maps)
    • Presidential Library and Museum – virtual tour – 1st floor and 2nd floor
• Michigan:
  • Ford Presidential Museum – virtual tour
• Missouri:
  • Grant National Historic Site – virtual tour
  • Truman National Historic Site – virtual tour
• New York:
  • Van Buren National Historic Site – virtual tour
  • T. Roosevelt:
    • Birthplace National Historic Site – virtual tour
    • Sagamore Hill National Historic Site – video tour
  • F. Roosevelt:
    • National Historic Site – virtual tour
    • Presidential Library – virtual tour
    • Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site – virtual tour
• North Carolina:
  • Polk State Historic Site – video tour
• North Dakota:
  • T. Roosevelt National Park – video 
• Ohio:
  • W.H. Harrison memorial and tomb virtual tours
  • Grant Birthplace – videos
  • Hayes Presidential Library and Museum – virtual collections
  • Garfield National Historic Site – site film, video virtual tour, and virtual tour
  • Taft National Historic Site – virtual tour
• Pennsylvania:
  • Eisenhower National Historic Site – video tour and virtual tour
• South Carolina:
  • Wilson Boyhood Home – virtual tour (scroll to bottom)
• South Dakota:
  • Mount Rushmore – virtual tour
• Tennessee:
  • Jackson’s home The Hermitage – virtual visits
  • Johnson National Historic Site – virtual tour
• Texas:
  • George H.W. Bush Presidential Library – virtual tour (scroll to bottom)
  • George W. Bush Presidential Library – virtual tour
• Virginia:
  • Washington’s Mount Vernon – virtual tour
  • Jefferson:
    • Monticello – house virtual tour (unguided and guided) and grounds virtual tour
    • Poplar Forest – virtual tour
    • Tuckahoe Plantation – virtual tour (indoor and outdoor)
  • Madison:
    • Montpelier – video tour and virtual tour
    • Birthplace (Belle Grove Plantation) – virtual tour
    • Madison Museum – video tour
  • Monroe:
    • Highland – virtual tour 1, 2, and indoors
    • Monroe Museum – virtual tour 1 and 2
  • Tyler:
    • Sherwood Forest – virtual tour
  • Wilson:
    • Birthplace Home – virtual tour
    • Edith Bolling Wilson (wife) Birthplace Home – virtual tour
  • Hoover:
    • Rapidan Camp – video
• Washington, DC:
  • The White House – virtual tour and app
  • Presidential Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery – virtual tour 1 and 2
    • First Ladies portraits – virtual tour
  • Presidential Monuments/Memorials:
    • Washington Monument – virtual tour (outside)
    • Jefferson Memorial – virtual tour
    • Lincoln Memorial – virtual tour and interactive site
  • Lincoln:
    • Ford’s Theatre – virtual tour
  • Wilson:
    • House – virtual tour 

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