Art And The Mass Media

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echnology. Simple add-ons such as exhibits with recorded explications available at the press of a button have been joined by science playgrounds, radio-broadcast walking tours, dinosaur robots, and the current flurry of multimedia computers. In some sense this technological enhancement makes these "electronic museums."
Most recently, the term "electronic museum" has come to apply to what could also be called the "virtual museums”. The functions of a virtual museum can include and even improve upon those of the traditional museum. For instance, they can preserve art pieces even better by showing electronic representations of them instead of exposing them to public contact and environmental hazards; they can teach more effectively by providing a depth of information by respected scholars unobtainable by most traditional museums and visitors; they don't need to guard the representation as vigilantly as they do the physical object; and access can be much more global instead of being constrained by the costs of time and distance.
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