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Unfortunately, Museum-L which started in 1991 has only been archived since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
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Jim Angus
Internet and Hypermedia Programs
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