>>virtual museums

>> In fact the more you could see the reproduction, the more you wanted to see
>> the original.
Heleanor Feltham, of the Powerhouse Museum...

Important point Heleanor.

>couldn't a virtual museum exhibit artifacts created in virtual world
>(virtual works of art etc.)?
DIRK VOM LEHN, of the  Soc Sci Faculty, Univ of Nottm

Dirk, there are already a number of those ...
go visit Lin Hsin Hsin's Virtual Museum for example...
http://www.ncb.gov.sg/lhh/

/and just to add my two pennyworth -

there already are several (real) museums who have exhibited (real)
web-sites - I dont think that you can get more virtual than that...!

Susan Hazan
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

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