Digital Museums in 3D Virtual Environment

Nowadays, a hundred of emerging Web-based museums has been proposed to improve preservation of and access to cultural heritage. Their examples are Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney that aims at dynamic and innovative managing and exploring Australia’s maritime heritage via http://www.anmm.gov.au/, Art gallery of Ontario that publishes the museum content on-line via http://www.ago.net/ to help new citizens learn more about their new home country through art. Another example worth mentioning is Smithsonian Institution that is the world’s largest museum complex and research organization composed of 19 museums, 9 research centers, and the National Zoo. All museums under Smithsonian Institution found in http://www.si.edu/museums/ have developed their digital museums where visitors of National Portrait Gallery can search more than 80,000 portrait records from the Catalog of American Portraits and new material is added regularly, and automatically published to the Website after being cataloged and validated. ABSTRACT

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