The Virtual Museum- who needs it?

Abstract- Electronic public access to museums has become a reality- not as a result of a national, centrally controlled, network of museum collections but as a by-product of the growing popularity and availability of the Internet. This paper examines the growth of electronic access to museums and their collections by the specialist, the general public and by schools and asks some pertinent questions. Can such a serendipitous beast as the World Wide Web really deliver th