A few questions come to mind: what kind of objects is your collection
composed of?  Do you own the copyright to those objects?  The question
becomes tricky with works by living artists, especially those created after
1978, but these concerns might not apply at all to your collection.
 
The floppy disk alternative proposed by Susan Jacobson is an interesting one,
and certainly cost-effective for small quantities of information-for
instance, you can practically give them away if you get an underwriter, and
they can play in school classrooms computers.  But if you want to put out
high resolution color reproductions of a number of works, or include video
and sound, you will quickly exhaust this alternative-and your budget will
rise accordingly!
 
The question Mac/PC is increasingly moot: Macromedia Director, Apple Media
Tool, and Authorware are now all cross-platform multimedia authoring tools,
so you can produce one hybrid CD-ROM that is good on both platforms.  As for
CD-i, it is far less well distributed in American than in Europe, so it is
probably not the way to go-unless the numbers on that are far different in
Canada than the US. I hope this helps you for a start.
 
Peter Samis
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
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