Enhancing the Value of Museum Web Sites

Abstract

Graduate students in a seminar on cultural heritage resources closely compared the experience of responding to museum artifacts in gallery settings with how those same artifacts might be experienced as digital surrogates. After learning to articulate precise differences between the “real” and the “represented,” students applied their understanding of the relative strengths of Web technology to create online experiences for three area museums that were rooted in the fundamental principles of museum learning. The student sites thus transcend much current practice and point the way to exciting new possibilities for future museum Web sites.

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