Virtual Museum

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Virtual Museums
Robert LauriniINSA de Lyon
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Virtual Museums

• Cultural heritage
• Real Museum (brick-and-mortar) and Virtual Museum
• Multimedia information

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Virtual museums

• 1 - Websites of existing museums
• 2 - Gateways towards several museums
• 3 - Museums without walls
• 4 - Silk Road Virtual Museum
• 5 - Conclusions

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1 - Websites of existing museums

• Vatican
• Louvre in Paris
• Hermitage in St Petersburg
• Air and Space Museum in Washington DC
• Toyota
• Mutsibishi
• Ellis Island, NY

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Vatican Museums

• http//www.christusrex.org/www1/vaticano/0-Musei.h
  tml

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Portal
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Example
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Other example
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Vatican museums

• One of the more accessed site
• Oldest virtual museum
• More than 60 awards
• Diversity of languages
• Simple structure
• No site map
• No search engine

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Louvre

• http//www.louvre.fr/

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English portal
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Louvre site map
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Louvre virtual tour
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Louvre virtual tour
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Louvre virtual Tour
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Louvre museum

• Structure more sophisticated
• Animation
• Virtual tour

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Hermitage

• http//www.hermitagemuseum.org/

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Portal
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Virtual visit
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Second floor
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Matisse Room
http//www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/08/hm88_0_2
_70.html
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Site map
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Digital collections
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Washington Air and Space Museum

• http//www.nasm.si.edu/

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Portal
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Exhibitions
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Example Apollo to the Moon
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Early flights
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Collections
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Museum map
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How things fly
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Air and Space Museum

• Interesting structure
• Enormous diversity
• Need re-engineering

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Toyota Automobile Museum

• http//www.toyota.co.jp/Museum/index.html

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Portal
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Organization of the museum
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Organization of the second floor
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Example
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Toyota Museum

• Very simple structure
• Geographic organisation

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Mitsubishi
http//www.mitsubishi.or.jp/vdm/nomal2_e.html
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Comparison

• Selection of very common examples
• Not only presentation of collection, but also
  general information regarding the museum
• Limitation about virtual tour