Van Gogh Virtual Tour: A Free 3D Museum

Vestíbulo de la visita virtual con las puertas de las salas de París, Arlés y Saint-Rémy
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The museovangogh.org virtual tour is a 3D museum you can explore for free in your browser: five rooms, one for each period of Vincent van Gogh’s life, with 64 paintings hung at actual size and in chronological order. Tap a work and it opens in high resolution, with zoom down to the brushstroke, next to its label: title, date, the museum that holds it today and, where there is one, a quote from his letters. The tour itself and its labels are in Spanish.

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Lobby of the virtual tour with the doors to the Paris, Arles and Saint-Rémy rooms
The lobby: five doors, one for each period, with a work from each period next to its door.

What the tour is like

  • A lobby with five doors, one for each period, with a sign above each and, beside it, a work from that period that is not inside the room, as at the entrance to a museum.
  • Five rooms: Nuenen, Paris, Arles, Saint-Rémy and Auvers-sur-Oise. Through each door you see the actual room behind it, and you walk from one to the next.
  • Paintings at actual size and in the order he painted them, with their labels on the wall (in Spanish).
  • Zoom down to the brushstroke: each work opens in high resolution, with its full label and a link to its entry.
  • A window onto the travel guide in each room, to see what the places he painted look like today.
The Arles room of the virtual tour with the paintings hung on the wall
The Arles room: the paintings hang at their actual size and in chronological order.
Van Gogh's Starry Night Over the Rhône and a zoomed-in detail of its brushwork
Tap a painting and it opens in high resolution: here, a detail of Starry Night Over the Rhône (Musée d’Orsay).

The lobby

Beside each door hangs a work from that period that is not inside the room, as at the entrance to a museum.

The five rooms

Room 1 · Nuenen (December 1883 – November 1885)

Van Gogh lived in Nuenen from December 1883 to November 1885, at first with his parents at the parsonage: he painted weavers, peasants and landscapes, and capped the period with The Potato Eaters.

Enter the Nuenen room · see its works as a list (in Spanish)

Room 2 · Paris (March 1886 – February 1888)

Van Gogh lived in Paris from March 1886 to February 1888 (the Van Gogh Museum and Vangoghletters date his arrival to around February 28, 1886): with his brother Theo in Montmartre (rue Laval and, from June 1886, 54 rue Lepic), where he met Toulouse-Lautrec, Bernard, Signac and Tanguy, painted Montmartre and Asnières, and left Paris for Arles on February 19, 1888.

Enter the Paris room · see its works as a list (in Spanish)

Room 3 · Arles (February 1888 – May 1889)

Van Gogh arrived in Arles on February 20, 1888, rented the Yellow House in May, lived with Gauguin from October 23, suffered the breakdown of December 23, 1888, and voluntarily entered the asylum in Saint-Rémy on May 8, 1889.

Enter the Arles room · see its works as a list (in Spanish)

Room 4 · Saint-Rémy (May 1889 – May 1890)

Van Gogh voluntarily entered the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum on May 8, 1889, and stayed there until May 16, 1890; during that year he painted the garden, the fields and olive groves around it, and the Alpilles series.

Enter the Saint-Rémy room · see its works as a list (in Spanish)

Room 5 · Auvers-sur-Oise (May 20 – July 29, 1890)

Van Gogh lived in Auvers-sur-Oise from his arrival on May 20, 1890, until his death on July 29, 1890; staying in a small room at the Auberge Ravoux, he painted almost one picture a day (gardens, wheat fields, the church, portraits) and became friends with Dr. Gachet.

Enter the Auvers-sur-Oise room · see its works as a list (in Spanish)

Door to the Paris room seen from the lobby of the virtual tour
Through each door you see the actual room behind it, and you walk right through.

How to get around

  • On a computer: drag with the mouse to look around; walk with W A S D or the ↑ ↓ arrow keys (← → turn), with the scroll wheel, or by clicking on the floor. Click a painting to open it.
  • On a phone: drag your finger to look around and tap the floor to walk. Tap a painting to open it and pinch to zoom.
  • Guided route: the ‹ › buttons at the bottom take you from painting to painting (and, in the lobby, from door to door).
  • Between rooms: walk toward a door to go through it. Each room has one door to the lobby and another to the next room, except Auvers, the last one.
The Van Gogh virtual tour on a mobile phone
On a phone: drag to look around and tap the floor to walk.

Where the images and texts come from

The labels summarize the entries on museovangogh.org, checked against the Van Gogh Museum’s edition of the letters, Wikipedia, vggallery.com and the museums’ websites. The images are public domain or CC0 reproductions from Wikimedia Commons, chosen to match the exact version of each painting, with its catalog number and museum.

The originals are held in 17 museums: Courtauld Gallery, London; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki; Musée d’Orsay, Paris; State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires; Pushkin Museum, Moscow; Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam; Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh; National Gallery of Art, Washington; National Gallery, London; Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis; Tate, London.

Starry Night Over the Rhône hanging in the Arles room with its label
Each work has a label with its title, date and the museum that holds it today.

Frequently asked questions

Is the virtual tour free?

Yes, the museovangogh.org virtual tour is free: you explore it in your browser, with no sign-up and nothing to install, on a computer or a phone. The tour and its labels are in Spanish.

Is this the official virtual tour of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam?

No. museovangogh.org is an independent project, not affiliated with the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam or any other museum. The paintings in the tour are held in 17 different museums, and each work’s label says which one. If you are planning a trip to Amsterdam, see our Van Gogh Museum guide and our guide to tickets.

Which paintings are in the tour?

64 works: 59 in five rooms (Nuenen, Paris, Arles, Saint-Rémy and Auvers-sur-Oise, in chronological order) and five more in the lobby. They include The Potato Eaters, Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers (National Gallery, London), Café Terrace at Night, The Starry Night and Wheatfield with Crows.

Can I use it on my phone?

Yes. On a phone you drag your finger to look around and tap the floor to walk. For basic phones, each room has a list version, without 3D, with the same zoom and the same labels.

Where do the images and quotes come from?

The images are public domain or CC0 reproductions from Wikimedia Commons, most of them made by the museums themselves. The quotes come from the Van Gogh Museum’s edition of the letters (vangoghletters.org), with a link to each letter.

Enter the virtual museum (in Spanish) →

About this page. Written by Jorge Torres, editor of Museo Van Gogh, in October 2026. Each work in the tour links to its entry, with its sources. How we write our entries.