Interaction With Art Museums On The Web

In this paper, we discuss various features of art museum websites including community-oriented Web 2.0 services that <br> are getting increasingly important for the communication between museums and their potential visitors. We concentrate <br> on approaches to explore the museums´ artefacts, on educational and community building services. We looked at 69 art <br> museum websites all over the world, including the 20 most visited art museums, and analyzed them according to their use <br> of collaborative and interactive concepts. We highlight unique solutions and point to interesting developments suitable <br> for extended research.