CALENDAR: Charleston #MuseumWeek: 7 days, 7 themes, 7 hashtags

Staff reports  |  There are seven great things to do online this week through the Charleston Museum.  Check out these activities:

• May 11:  #HerosMW.  Facebook Live with Heather Rivet, historic house manager at the Joseph Manigault House
• May 12:  #CultureInQuarantineMW.  Facebook Live with Jennifer McCormick, chief of collections and archivist in the Museum Archives
• May 13: #TogetherMW.  Facebook Live with Jessica Runyon, museum educator (Lesson and craft for kids!)
• May 14:  #MuseumMomentsMW. Facebook Live with Virginia Theerman, curator of historic textiles discussing museum matriarchs
• May 15:  #ClimateMW. Lesson with Matthew Gibson, curator of natural history followed by Facebook Live craft for kids with Jessica Runyon.
• May 16:  #TechnologyMW.  Virtual tours and more ways to utilize the museum’s collection online.
• May 17:  #DreamsMW. Building tomorrow’s museum with today’s dreams. Plans for the future with museum Director Carl Borick.
• More info: Charleston Museum.

Other local institutions to visit virtually:

• Gibbes Museum.  You can enjoy lots of local art offerings through the website and social media accounts of the Gibbes Museum. AT 10 a.m. on weekdays, the museum posts virtual readings and workshops on Facebook. Find more online.
• Brookgreen Gardens.  The Murrells Inlet gardens have a new set of activities, #BrookgreenAtHome, that you can do, well, from home.  The staff offers materials, directions and examples.  Post to social media with the tag when done.
• Avian Conservation Center.  Access videos and live streaming presentations online to learn about what’s going on at the Center for Birds of Prey. 

There’s also a whole virtual world out there to find and enjoy.  Some good ones:

• LONDON:  British Museum, which has mummies and lots of treasures;
• LONDON:  Tate Modern, which has lots of neat exhibitions.
• NEW YORK: Metropolitan Museum of Art, with collections of 5,000 years of art.
• NEW YORK: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum with its dazzling displays of modernism.
• More.  You can visit 500 museums across the world online through this Google amalgamation of sites.  

Virtual tours:  Bulldog Tours is providing virtual tours of the city of Charleston daily at 2 p.m., according to sister publication Charleston City Paper.  So far, tours have been to Washington Square, Fort Lamar and the old City Jail.  Learn more.

Plugged In To History.  Middleton Place offers this new digital content portal that offers streamed content on living history, heritage breeds, crafts and even past drinks and social practices (appropriately on Friday at 5 p.m.).  More.

Online wellness:  You can also get fit online through virtual fitness classes that offer workouts, meditations and more.  Check out this City Paper post of what area studios are offering.

Online jazz:  Forte Jazz Lounge in downtown Charleston is offering music enthusiasts the chance to watch live shows online through virtual ticketing with suggested donations of $10.  The feed starts about 15 minutes before shows.  When the virus scare is done, all donors will be invited to a big party blowout at the club with the Joe Clarke Big Band.  Learn more.

Aquarium online.  The S.C. Aquarium is expected to offer a daily Nature Challenge, a virtual “Passport to Fun” and a “Moment of Zen” starting this week online.  It also offers daily education classes at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., Monday to Friday, via its virtual network.  Learn more.

• Read here to learn more about the Aquarium’s new Solo Sweep Challenge litter clean-up effort.

If you have any online events, drop us a line (editor@charlestoncurrents.com) and make sure to put “Online event” in the subject line.  Similarly, if you’ve got cool ideas for stuff to do while in isolation at home, send them our way.