 - Contents
-
Museum
Evaluation
- Place-Specific
Museums
- Placeless
Museums
- Field Trips and
Tours
- Armchair
Traveler
- Interactive
Field Trip
- Simulated
Exploration
Back
to Technology Integration
- Back
to eduScapes
|
|
-
- Explore:
- Adult-Produced
Virtual Museums
-
Before you can build your own
museum, you'll want to explore museums that others have
created. How were they constructed? How are they
organized? Start with the adult-produced museums, then
visit some museums created by students.
-
- There are many places where you can
find virtual museums. We've listed some interesting
museums in three categories: place-specific, placeless,
and field trips or tours.
-
- If you want to find your own examples
to explore, try some of the following starting
points.
- You could also search for museums
using Yahooligans
and Disney
Internet Guide.
|
- Museum
Evaluation
|
|
- As you explore each site, look for
the features that you think are most important. What
suggestions would you provide for the developers? What
are the most important elements of a virtual museum? The
list on the right contains some areas to consider. You
may even want to develop your own evaluation
form.
- Focus, Theme, or Format
- Core Page
- Site Organization
- Navigation: menu, word search,
diagram, map, timeline
- Fonts, Headings, &
Readability
- Use of Color
- Use of Visuals: diagrams, charts,
photographs, drawing, maps, timelines,
graphics
- Types of Artifacts
- Multimedia Elements: audio, video,
animation
|
- Place-Specific
Museums
-
- Place-specific museums are actual
locations such as an art, science, or history museum. In
addition to the virtual museum, there's a "real" museum
that you can visit. You can wander through a building and
sometimes even touch the artifacts.
-
- The Chicago Science Museum,
Louvre, Sistine
Chapel, Henry Ford Museum,
and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame are just
a few. Many of the National Parks
have virtual sites such as the Hoover Dam and Grand
Canyon.
|
|
- Smithsonian
- Mount
Vernon
- San
Francisco Museum
- Memphis
Museum
- Franklin
Institute Science Museum
- Mongolia
Exhibit
- Natural
History Museum
- International
Museum of Horses
- Waikiki
Aquarium
- Mystic
SeaPort
- Papermaking
Museum
- San
Diego Aerospace Museum
- American
Museum of Natural History
- At
Home in the Heartland - Illinois
- Exploratorium
- Missouri
Botanical Gardens
- Crayon
Factory
|
- Placeless
Museums
-
- Placeless museums don't exist in a
traditional building. They're created in a virtual world
on the computer. However a placeless museum is more than
simply a web page. It contains artifacts and exhibits
that highlight a particular topic or theme.
-
- Watch out, some of these are a
mixture of museum and store. They provide an exhibit,
then ask you to buy something.
-
- You can find museums based on hot
wheels, Barbie dolls, Beanie
Babies, and ancient history. Just do a search for any
topic and you'll probably find a site that calls itself a
museum.
|
|
Dinosaurs
Red
Cross
Comic
Books
Kites
|
-
Virtual Field
Trip:
- Armchair
Traveler
-
- An armchair traveler may explore a
country, follow a trail, or view a slide
show.
-
- Rather than viewing an event live,
you're able to see what happened when people went on a
trip. In most cases, you don't see everything that
happened, just the highlights.
|
|
US
History Tour
New
Zealand
Virtual
Palenque
Volcano
Tour
Bosnia
Field Trip
Hawaii
|
-
Virtual Field
Trip:
- Interactive Field
Trip
-
- An interactive field trip may involve
visiting a volcano, taking a trip around the world,
exploring the ocean floor, or climbing
a mountain.
-
- You get to see what's happening, as
it happens. Or, you can go back later and experience that
happened through the eyes of someone who experienced
it.
|
|
Global
Learn
Mungo
Park
Egypt
Mapping
EarthQuest
2000
Underground
Railroad
Iditarod
|
-
Virtual Field
Trip:
- Simulated
Exploration
-
- A simulated exploration takes users
on a trip through history, science, or any other area of
study. These sites use photographs, diagrams, and other
media to help you experience something that might not be
possible in the "real" world because it's too dangerous,
too expensive, or simply impossible.
-
- You can't really visit the past or
fit inside an atom, but on a simulated trip you can meet
Thomas Jefferson, soar through a blood vessel, or zoom
across the solar system.
|
|
Nine
Planets
Virtual
Cave
Sea
& Sky
|