It varies widely.  In some cases it is done by volunteers or by museum personnel in addition to their other duties.  In other cases (usually only in larger, well-financed museums) there may be a staff person who devotes his or her entire time to creation and maintenance of the web
site.  In yet other cases, commercial firms may be hired to create and maintain the site.  Occasionally, the original site is set up as a computer-class exercise or as a thesis project.

Art Harris

> Hello!
> This may be a very basic question, but sorry I am a non-degital person
> who would like to find out about Museum web master.
> I am always impressed by the Home pages of Museums. Some of them, I can
> click and sound will come out to make my museum experience.
> I wonder if there is any museum spesialist-web master in each museum.
> If not, who is making those awesome pages?
>
> Regards,
>
> Sae Minohara
> Coporate Planning Department
> C/O Shimizu Corporation
> Seavans South, 1-2-3 Shibaura,
> Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-8007
> Japan
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