Virtual museums Virtual museums The 24 Hour Museum is the United Kingdom's National Virtual Museum. The 24 Hour Museum is a comprehensive guide to all the UK's museums and galleries. It aims to inspire people to explore the UK’s museums and galleries, both online and in the ‘real’ world. The site offers a unique mix of dynamic content including; daily arts news, exhibition reviews and in-depth online trails, as well as housing a comprehensive, fully searchable, database of over 3,000 cultural institutions and collections. In addition the daily news stories are available as an RSS newsfeed. ...more on Wikipedia about "24 Hour Museum"
The American Widescreen Museum is a virtual museum devoted to motion picture history, especially widescreen processes, early color cinematography, and the technical development of sound film. It has been online since 1997. ...more on Wikipedia about "American Widescreen Museum"
ASIFA-Hollywood has embarked on an ambitious project to expand the offerings of the current ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Center in Burbank to include a virtual archive, museum, library and research facility for the benefit of the animation community, students and general public. The first step in achieving our goals involves the establishment of a computer system capable of documenting, cataloging, and retrieving images and sounds related to the art of animation. ...more on Wikipedia about "ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive Project"
GigPosters.com is an online gallery and historical repository for thousands of artists who create, manufacture posters and flyers for musical events. The site was founded in 2001. It features posters for bands and artists at all levels of popularity, currently ( as of 2006) numbering at more than 53,000 posters from more 53,000 bands/artists by more than 4,700 designers from around the world. Some (not all) of the posters are also available for purchase through the site. ...more on Wikipedia about "Gigposters.com"
The Lin Hsin Hsin Art Museum is one of the earliest examples of a personal virtual museum, originally established in 1994. It presents digital art by the artist Lin Hsin Hsin from Singapore. ...more on Wikipedia about "Lin Hsin Hsin Art Museum"
The annual Museums and the Web international conference has been organized by Archives & Museums Informatics each Spring in North America since 1997: ...more on Wikipedia about "Museums and the Web"
Tate in Space is an online artwork by artist Susan Collins in collaboration with the Tate Gallery in the UK. The webpages appear as part of the Tate Online webpages, alongside the pages for physical art galleries such as Tate Modern and Tate Liverpool, to give the impression that Tate in Space is intended as a genuine art gallery, albeit one orbiting the planet, and currently represented by the Tate Satellite. ...more on Wikipedia about "Tate in Space"
Tate Online is the website of the Tate Gallery, forming an umbrella website for the four galleries run by the Tate, Tate Britain, Tate Modern, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives. Founded as part of a drive to make the holdings of the Tate more accessible to a wider audience and to increase the participation in the Gallery's activity, the Tate Online website holds digital versions of many of the holdings as well as detailed information on exhibitions. ...more on Wikipedia about "Tate Online"
A virtual museum is an online website with a collection of objects (real or virtual) or exhibitions. They include contemporary, historical and sometimes artistic content. Examples include the Virtual Museum of Computing. Some are produced by enthusiastic individuals such as the Lin Hsin Hsin Art Museum; others, like the UK's 24 Hour Museum and the Virtual Museum of Canada, are professional endeavours. However, virtual museum websites may be quirky, even jokey, in some cases. ...more on Wikipedia about "Virtual museum"
The Virtual Museum of Canada (VMC) is Canada's national virtual museum. It includes virtual exhibits, online games, educational material and the opportunity to create a personalized virtual museum. The resources are available in both French and English. ...more on Wikipedia about "Virtual Museum of Canada"
The Virtual Museum of Computing (VMoC) is an electic collection of links and online resources concerning the history of computing. It includes links to other related museums, both real and virtual, around the world, as well as having its own virtual galleries of information. A particular feature is the early computing pioneer Alan Turing, among others. ...more on Wikipedia about "Virtual Museum of Computing"
The WebMuseum, formerly known as the WebLouvre, was founded by Nicolas Pioch in France in 1994, while still a student. It is one of the earliest examples of a virtual museum. When the actual Louvre became aware of its existence, it was forced to change its name. However, many mirror sites were established throughout the world (including websites located in Brazil, England – UK, Hungary, Japan, Mexico, Poland, Russia and the USA), making it impossible to eradicate its existence. It still provides an excellent archival and educational resource of good quality art images and information, although it is no longer very actively updated. ...more on Wikipedia about "WebMuseum"
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