Virtual museum

A virtual museum is a gallery, primarily located on the space Internet the such Web Gallery off Art.

Some definitions

The appearance of new technologies made it possible the Musée S to exploit them at ends of safeguarding and conservation of the inheritance. Cédérom and DVD-Romanian is thus reflected to replace the Microfilm S and Microfiche S, offering to the museums a simplified use but also a quality and a storage capacity definitely higher than those their predecessors. Then new media were born, opening new possibilities of exploitation: the Internet.

Gilles Deleuze defines the virtual word as “any problematic field likely to establish bonds between seemingly foreign objects or processes the ones with the others: the virtual one is entirely real even if all in him is not updated” (Deloche, 2001). Thus, the virtual one would be another manner of existing, opposite with the current one. It is not about possible but would be an imperceptible certainty. Indeed, from its existence even, the virtual bring into play of the data, unquestionable and exploitable information, however those are intangible because immaterial. They exist, certainly, but are untouchable, impalpable.

The virtual museum thus concerns this same definition coupled to that of the institution muséale. It would be thus an intangible institution accessible to the public and making research concerning the material witnesses from the man and his environment, preserving them (in particular by the digitalization of the collections), diffusing them and communicating them and exposing them (through virtual exposures) in particular at ends of education, research and dialog with the sensitive one.

According to Genevieve Vidal, the virtual museum constitutes a reference to the real museum, “it presents exposures, resulting from exposures real or conceived exclusively to be put in network or on optical disk, of information on the activities of the museum, the articles, the cards of reading on works. ” It can “be managed by the traditional actors of the museums, but also by the persons in charge of the tourist services of the cities seeking to develop their inheritance, or impassioned individuals”.

Missions of the virtual museum

The virtual museum can have also various missions, in particular of teaching and diffusion of the culture, but also of output and promotion, and finally of the properly political objectives.

Some works

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BOURDELOIE, Helene. The contribution of the hypermédias for the access to the culture: proposal for a study on the cultural practices of Internet and the CD-ROM. Memory of DEA, University of Paris II 1999.
CAUNE, Jean. Culture in action: of Vilar with Lang, the lost direction, Grenoble, University Presses of Grenoble, 1999.
CONQUET, Andre. Museums for what to make? Academies of passed or springboards towards the future?
DELOCHE, Bernard. The virtual museum: towards an ethics of the new images, Paris, University Presses of France, 2001.
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FEENEY, Mary ED. DIGITAL Culture: Maximizing the Nation' S Investment. In Synthesis off JISC/NPO Studies one the reservation off Culture Material
GAUGUET, B. Practical artistic at the era of digitalization: cédérom and Internet: problems of new an economy of art? Thesis of doctorate under the direction of Poinsot, Jean-Marc, University Rennes 2 High Brittany
JONES-GARMIL, K. ED. The Wired Museum, Amerian Association off Natural history musea
KALFATORIC, Martin R. Creating has winning on-line exhibition: guide for libraries, files and natural history musea
LEVY, Pierre has. What the virtual one? Paris, the Discovery, 1998.
MALRAUX, Andre. The imaginary museum, Paris, Gallimard, 1965
MATHEY, Aude. The virtual museum, which future for the numerical culture? Paris, the Manuscript, 2007.
PATAUD-CELERIER, Philippe. Imaginary museum with the virtual museum, Paris, Lynx-Edicom 1994.
Saint Pierre, Armand. Creation of virtual classes. Integration of Internet in the class for teaching and the training. Montreal, Vermette Editions, 1996.
WALTER, Benjamin. The work of art at the time of its technical reproducibility, Paris, Editions Combined, 2003 (last edition of the version of 1939)
WELGER-BARBOZA, Corinne. Virtual museum with the museum media library, Paris, Harmattan, 2001.

External bond

Virtual Library Natural history musea around the world

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