Intellectual Property and Interactive Multimedia Collaborations

Few art museums, collections or temporary exhibitions in Europe (or elsewhere) provide opportunities for their visiting publics to directly or indirectly explore for themselves, aspects of the permanent collections (whether hung, on loan or in store) in any depth; temporary exhibitions and their contexts; the work of an individual artist in the context of other work and influences; the historical, social or other contexts that gave rise to the creation of and the subsequent nationaUinternationa1 distribution and display of this art. Many art museums have extensive libraries but even where these are, in principle, available to the visiting public, few are organised and accessible in such a way as to make casual public use a reality.