Re: Virtual and "Real" Museums

[Neil Clark <NCLARK@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> However, you guys out at Berkeley have actually gone out
> and done it. And, you had a credible set of virtual exhibits up before most
> of the paleo community knew what the acronym WWW meant.  You're way out
> ahead of the rest of us in this area. [Note: enjoy your lead while you can
> for the gap will be closing ;->  ]

And it is closing fast.... We have already nearly finished both a 
virtual tour of the Hunterian Museum, and an audio-guided tour led by 
our education officer.  It is still patchy at the moment, but 
watch-this-space!  I will inform you when we have it on line.

One of the problems with it will be that I won't be able to use it as 
my system doesn't support the audio and the memory and processor are 
so slow that it would take ages to down-load.  I presume that there 
are some amongst you that have a much larger and powerful computers 
than what I have, and will be able to tell me what it is 
like...eventually.

Neil


Neil Clark
Curator of Palaeontology
Hunterian Museum
University of Glasgow
GLASGOW
G12 8QQ
Scotland/UK
email: NCLARK@museum.gla.ac.uk
Museum web site:-  http://www.gla.ac.uk/Museum/

'Man must surely have become an immensely worse animal 
than his teeth show him to have been designed for'
Hugh Miller (Cruise of the Betsey - 1858)