If I remember the dates correctly, I brought the Dallas Museum of Art online
with a Gopher site in October, 1993, and then a Web site in December 1993.





Date:    Mon, 26 Aug 1996 10:13:13 -0700
From:    Jim Angus <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: The first museum homepages

The UC Berkeley Museum of Paleontology was one of the first.  We also came
on pretty early, November of 1994.

Jim Angus
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
http://www.nhm.org

>I wonder whether anyone can help in identifying the first museum homepages.
>These presumably followed the availability of Mosaic in 1993 and not
>suprisingly
>the University of Illinois's Krannert Art Museum appears to have been on
>the web
>by the end of August in that year.  However, the University of North
>Carolina at
>Chapel Hill  were offering a "virtual museum" a few weeks earlier (using
Lynx?)
>and the homepage of Berkeley's Museum of Paleontology was also available
>in that
>year.  Can anyone confirm this information or add to it?
>
>Unfortunately, Museum-L which started in 1991 has only been archived since
>1994;
>otherwise the answer might have been there.
>
>The information is required for an article on virtual museums, to be
published
>shortly and any help would be much appreciated.  Contact can be made
off-list.
>
>Geoffrey Lewis
>70630,[log in to unmask]

Jim Angus
Internet and Hypermedia Programs
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
900 Exposition Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA  90007

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