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The Frank Lloyd Wright virtual museum in Second Life, in 2010 [1]. A virtual museum is a digital entity that draws on the characteristics of a museum, in order to complement, enhance, or augment the museum experience through personalization, interactivity, and richness of content.
Bucharest Natural History Museum [235] and the Museum of the Romanian Peasant [236] offer virtual tours of two of Romania's larger historical/anthropological museums. Europeana is a virtual repository of artworks, literature, cultural objects, relics, and musical recordings/writings from over 2000 European institutions.
The Virtual Museum of Computing (VMoC), part of the Virtual Library museums pages, was created as a virtual museum providing information on the history of computers and computer science. [ 25 ] [ 26 ] [ 27 ] It included virtual "galleries" (e.g., on Alan Turing , curated by Andrew Hodges [ 27 ] ) and links to other computer museums .
The Virtual Museum's second thematic section, www.discoverbaroqueart.org, was inaugurated in 2010. The newest section, sharinghistory.org, has been online since April 2015. [7] Exhibition Trail is the name of another exhibition format set up by MWNF as a pioneering method to promote cultural tourism. [8]
Greenmuseum.org was a nonprofit online museum of environmental art.Since its launch in 2001, greenmuseum.org had become a source for information about this global art movement, which includes ecoart (or ecological art), land art, art in nature and related terms.
The Art Renewal Center (ARC) is a non-profit, educational organization, which hosts an online museum dedicated to realist art. [2] [3] The ARC was founded by New Jersey businessman, author, [4] [5] and art collector Fred Ross. [6] Classical Beauty, by John William Godward, (collection of Sherry and Fred Ross)
The WebMuseum, formerly known as the WebLouvre, was founded by Nicolas Pioch [1] [2] in France in 1994, while he was a student. It is one of the earliest examples of a virtual museum.
The earliest museum with a physical existence to create a programme of substantial online exhibitions with high resolution images of artefacts was the Museum of the History of Science in Oxford, the first of which, The Measurers: a Flemish Image of Mathematics in the Sixteenth Century and an exhibition of early photographs, were published on 21 ...