INTERACTION WITH ART MUSEUMS ON THE WEB
Max Arends, Doron Goldfarb, Dieter Merkl, Martin Weingartner · 2009
In this paper, we discuss various features of art museum websites including community-oriented Web 2.0 services that are getting increasingly important for the communication between museums and their potential visitors. We concentrate on approaches to explore the museums ’ artefacts, on educational and community building services. We looked at 69 art museum websites all over the world, including the 20 most visited art museums, and analyzed them according to their use of collaborative and interactive concepts. We highlight unique solutions and point to interesting developments suitable for extended research.