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Unfortunately, Museum-L which started in 1991 has only been archived since 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 voice: 213/744-3317 fax: 213/746-2999 eMail: [log in to unmask] = [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] ------------------------------