Past years have seen the exploitation of multimedia techniques and lately the introduction of virtual reality methods to create new forms of presentation for museums' exhibitions. Virtual Reality can offer a number of advantages to museums, offering a way to overcome some common problems like the lack of space or the need of visitors to interact with the exhibits. A broad categorisation of virt...

† The Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom ‡ Pensoft Publishers, Sofia, Bulgaria § National Museum of Natural History, Sofia, Bulgaria | Netherlands Centre for Biodiversity Naturalis, Leiden, Netherlands ¶ Museum für Naturkunde – Leibniz-Institut für Evolutionsund Biodiversitätsforschung, Berlin, Germany # Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Montpellier, France †† Chica...

The museum offers a starting point from which to examine the fundamental nature of collaborative work and interdisciplinary scholarship. This article examines the socio-technological impact of introducing advanced information technology into the Spurlock Museum, a museum of world history and culture at the University of Illinois. It addresses the implementation of such methodologies as computer...

This paper deals with some characteristics of museum objects within the museological context and it tries to explain reasons why museum information systems are hardly ever covering all aspects of museum work and why it is not always easy to document even the complete physical description of objects in the museum information systems. Semological concepts were used to analyse the museum object an...

Art museum attendance is rising steadily, unchallenged by online alternatives. However, the psychological value of the real museum experience remains unclear because the experience of art in the museum and other contexts has not been compared. Here we examined the appreciation and memory of an art exhibition when viewed in a museum or as a computer simulated version in the laboratory. In line w...