Online Museums

Online Museum:(1)

“a non-profit, permanent institution in the service of society and its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits the tangible and intangible heritage of humanity and its environment for the purposes of education, study and enjoyment.“

– International Council of Museums ICOM, Museum definition, adopted by the 22nd General Assembly in Vienna, Austria, on 24 August 2007

With most museums in the USA closed, I have been researching benchmarks for online museums. There are several museum website awards including:

• The Webby Awards
• The GLAMi Awards
• Favourite Website Awards FWA
• Awwwards

Below I will mention a few of the 2020 winners and make a few comments and notes of observations.

• Not Location Based — Many “Online Museums” are a mapping of the physical environment of the museum building. A museum is not a building.
• A Platform for Content — Provides multiple entry points to content and multiple points of view of the content framework

Online Museums:

People Not Property — Historic Hudson Valley