A virtual museum is a museum that exists only online. A virtual museum is also known as an online museum, electronic museum, hypermuseum, digital museum,cybermuseum or Web museum. The term used depends upon the backgrounds of the practitioners and researchers working in this field.
As with a traditional museum, a virtual museum can be designed around specific objects – akin to an art museum, natural history museum, or archive – or can consist of new exhibitions created from scratch – akin to the exhibitions at science museums. Moreover, a virtual museum can refer to the mobile or World Wide Web offerings of traditional museums – e.g., displaying digital representations of its collections or exhibits – or can be born digital content such as Net art, Virtual Reality and Digital art.
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- Collection Australia – click here
- Melbourne Museum – click here
- MoMA Augmented Reality Project – click here
- Augmented Reality Art – click here
- GOOGLEsearch Virtual Museum – click here
- Wikipedia on Virtual Museums and the pioneers (pre Y2000) – click here
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