WebExhibits was launched in 1999 as one of the first online museums. Drawing eight million visitors each year, WebExhibits is an interactive, online museum of science, technology, engineering, mathematics, humanities, and culture. WebExhibits taps into experts’ knowledge and technology’s potential to create a rich, immersive experience that incorporates narratives, descriptions, maps, photos, video, and audio. This information, along with interactive virtual experiments and hands-on activities, prompts visitors to think, to formulate questions, and to explore topics from a variety of angles. In addition to spurring the informal learning process, WebExhibits also supports structured educational efforts.
Like museums in the physical world, WebExhibits presents information that is, for the most part, timeless. Yet WebExhibits also demonstrates a radical departure from physical museums, in terms of 24/7 accessibility, adaptation to support multiple learning styles, and cost-effectiveness. It costs only a few pennies to serve a WebExhibits visitor, in contrast with a typical U.S. museum’s cost of $23 per visitor.
The WebExhibits museum was founded in 1999. The museum receives approximately 8 million visitors a year.
See a list of the museum exhibits.
WebExhibit’s success has led to collaborations with institutions around the world. Learn more about IDEA’s collaborations.
Discover how web exhibits differ from other information on the Internet. Go to What is a Web Exhibit?
Want to create your own web exhibit? Find out how.
As a function of WebExhibit’s success, IDEA now collaborates with museums worldwide, including the National Gallery of Art (Washington) and the Museo Nacional del Prado (Madrid, Spain).
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