My wife and I recently visited the Church historic sites in Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois. It was wonderful. But if you can’t visit Church historic sites in person, there are virtual tours available.
Schedule live, virtual tours guided by missionaries or watch pre-recorded video tours. Below is a sampling of the tours available on the Church’s webpage Historic Sites Virtual Tours.
Schedule Live Virtual Tours
Sacred Grove. Through tours of two homes on the Smith Family Farm and a quiet walk in the Sacred Grove, learn about foundational events in Church history and Joseph Smith’s role as Prophet of the Restoration.
Priesthood Restoration Site. In this tour, experience places of translation, revelation, and restoration in Harmony, Pennsylvania, by visiting Isaac and Elizabeth Hale’s home, Joseph and Emma Smith’s home, and the Susquehanna River.
Kirtland Temple. Schedule a virtual tour of the Kirtland Temple. Learn about sacred events that occurred here and about the influence of those events throughout the world. Visit the place where the Savior came to accept the temple as His house.
Joseph and Emma Smith Home. Schedule a virtual tour of the Joseph and Emma Smith Home in Kirtland. Learn about Emma and Joseph as wife and husband, as parents, and as disciples of Jesus Christ. Grow in your understanding of how they united to serve the Lord.
Historic Kirtland. On this tour, you visit Newel and Elizabeth Ann Whitney’s home and store, an ashery, and a sawmill—places where Latter-day Saints, long ago and today, have learned to hear and follow the Lord’s voice.
Johnson Farm. This virtual tour of John and Elsa Johnson’s home in Hiram, Ohio, highlights sacrifice, friendship, and revelation
Carthage Jail. On this virtual tour, visit Carthage Jail and see where Joseph and Hyrum Smith spent their last hours before being martyred on June 27, 1844, sealing their testimonies with their blood.
Historic Nauvoo: Temple City. In this virtual tour, learn about the Latter-day Saints who donated hours of work to build the house of the Lord in Nauvoo by visiting the William and Caroline Weeks Home, the Edward and Ann Hunter Home, and the William and Esther Gheen Home.
Historic Nauvoo: Relief Society Foundations. Hear the story of the founding of the Nauvoo Female Relief Society by visiting the home of Sarah Granger Kimball and the recently acquired reconstruction of Joseph Smith’s brick store.
Historic Nauvoo: Joseph and Emma Smith. See the Smith Family Homestead and the Nauvoo Mansion, two recently acquired, original homes of Joseph and Emma Smith. Hear stories of the Smith family, the revelations received here, and the final years of the prophet’s earthly ministry.
Watch Virtual Tour Videos
Sacred Grove Historic Site, Part 1: The First Vision. Missionaries welcome you into a replica of Joseph Smith’s boyhood home and take you on a walk in the Sacred Grove.
Sacred Grove Historic Site, Part 2: The Angel Moroni and Joseph Smith. Missionaries take you to places where the angel Moroni taught young Joseph Smith about his sacred mission: the upstairs bedroom of a log home and an apple orchard.
Sacred Grove Historic Site Part 3: The Smith Family and the Book of Mormon. Missionaries take you on a tour of the restored farm home of Lucy Mack Smith and Joseph Smith Sr., where the Smith family worked together to support Joseph Smith Jr. in his calling to bring forth the Book of Mormon.
The Hill Cumorah and the Preparation of a Prophet. Missionaries take you to the Hill Cumorah where the angel Moroni helped young Joseph Smith prepare to bring forth the Book of Mormon.
Priesthood Restoration Site. Missionaries guide a tour of places where Joseph and Emma Smith and Oliver Cowdery participated in the translation of the Book of Mormon and where the Lord began to restore the priesthood power and authority to the Earth.
Grandin Building: Sharing the Book of Mormon with the World. Missionaries guide a tour of E. B. Grandin’s bookstore and printshop, where the Book of Mormon was first published.
Whitmer Farm: A Place of Miracles. Missionaries welcome you to the farm of Peter and Mary Whitmer, where part of the translation of the Book of Mormon took place as well as the organization of the restored Church of Jesus Christ.
Building a Sawmill to Build a Temple. Missionaries take you to a replica of a sawmill that early Saints built to construct the Kirtland Temple.
Johnson Home: Hidden Mysteries Revealed. Missionaries guide you through the home of John and Elsa Johnson in Hiram, Ohio, a place of conversion, charity, and service.
Whitney Home and Store: People and Places Transformed by the Gospel. Missionaries describe important events that occurred in Ann and Newel K. Whitney’s home and store, including the arrival of Joseph and Emma Smith to Kirtland, a vision of the Kirtland Temple, and the organization of the School of the Prophets.
To schedule or view any of these tours, see the Church’s webpage Historic Sites Virtual Tours.