The Getty Villa may be closed due to the pandemic right now, but a multitude of works from the collection are still available to be viewed online. (photo courtesy of The Getty)

From crafting artful smartphone pics and paper crowns to baking bread the Roman way, the Getty continues to offer a host of activities to do safely during lockdown.

“Animal Crossing: New Horizons” offers a peaceful escape through a video game that prompts players to dream up an island lifestyle from the comfort and safety of their homes. Players can plant and grow fruit trees, design their perfect house, and collect bugs, fish and fossils for their island’s natural history museum. Players can also add museum artworks to their game with the Animal Crossing Art Generator. The Getty’s open content program can also be used for clothing, wallpaper and canvas.

Transform smartphone photos into works of art through “Art Transfer,” Google’s arts and culture app. Through the app, users can see how scenes from their daily life might look through the eyes of Vincent van Gogh or Frida Kahlo.

The app allows users to apply the characteristics of artworks in the Getty collection to photos saved in their smartphones thanks to an algorithmic model created by Google AI, which generates a unique recreation of their photo inspired by the artwork they select.

This year’s most-clicked item on the Getty website turned out to be for an ancient bread recipe. Around 200 B.C., the senator/farmer Cato the Elder recorded a simple recipe, requiring just flour and water and even included some advice about hygiene: “Wash your hands and a bowl thoroughly. Pour coarse flour into the bowl, add water gradually and knead thoroughly. When you have kneaded well, form and bake under an earthenware cover.”

Additional activities online include crown-making inspired by Renaissance manuscripts in the Getty collection, as well as a host of other online learning experiences.

For more information, visit getty.edu.