I would suggest checking out the OCEAN PLANET on-line exhibit.  This
exhibit can be accessed through the Smithsonian home page or go
directly to:  "http://sea.wifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/ocean_planet.html"  This
on-line exhibit was done in conjunction with the traveling OCEAN
PLANET exhibit.  The Smithsonian Without Walls program is currently
developing other exhibits specifically for the Internet.  A project currently
in the works is "Revealing Things."  I went to a very interesting lecture by
Judith Gradwohl, the curator of the OCEAN PLANET on-line exhibit and
Director of Smithsonian Without Walls.  On-line exhibitions are definitely
one of the future trends in exhibit design.

Laura Mahoney
Office of Sponsored Projects
Smithsonian Institution
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>>> Ursula Richens <[log in to unmask]> 05/14/97 10:20pm >>>
I am currently researching Museums and the Internet for my Master of
Museum
Studies course. In particular, I am looking for / at museums that have
produced on line exhibitions.

Questions that I have are:
-Do you transfer existing exhibitions to an online format or develop them
specifically for the Internet?
-How do you evaluate the exhibitions (frontend and formative evaluation,
for
example)?
-Of what benefit to museums are online exhibitions? Why do them?


Any suggestions?
I would appreciate any information that is available or addresses for
relevant websites.

Thanks in advance,

Ursula Richens
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