1. Virtual Museums Robert Laurini INSA de Lyon

2. Virtual Museums Cultural heritage Real Museum (brick-and-mortar) and Virtual Museum Multimedia information

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

4. 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

5. Vatican Museums http://www.christusrex.org/www1/vaticano/0-Musei.html

6. Portal

7. Example

8. Other example

9. 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

10. Louvre http://www.louvre.fr/

11. English portal

12. Louvre site map

13. Louvre virtual tour

15. Louvre virtual Tour

16. Louvre museum Structure more sophisticated Animation Virtual tour

17. Hermitage http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/

18. Portal

19. Virtual visit

20. Second floor

21. Matisse Room http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/08/hm88_0_2_70.html

22. Site map

23. Digital collections

24. Washington Air and Space Museum http://www.nasm.si.edu/

25. Portal

26. Exhibitions

27. Example: Apollo to the Moon

28. Early flights

29. Collections

30. Museum map

31. How things fly

32. Air and Space Museum Interesting structure Enormous diversity –Need re-engineering

33. Toyota Automobile Museum http://www.toyota.co.jp/Museum/index.html

34. Portal

35. Organization of the museum

36. Organization of the second floor

37. Example

38. Toyota Museum Very simple structure Geographic organisation

39. Mitsubishi http://www.mitsubishi.or.jp/vdm/nomal2_e.html

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