Gallery guides and internet access...

Gallery or museum visits and internet materials…

Students may wish to write about or discuss their reactions to gallery or museum internet sites by comparing the material presented on these sites to the experience of visiting the actual gallery or museum site. Comparisons could be made between the two experiences and students could evaluate their reactions to viewing a reproduction of an work or art, design or craft and viewing the actual work or art, design and craft.

Gallery guides and internet access...

Gallery guides and internet sites…

Given the importance of internet site development within private and public galleries, it is important that teachers, parents and students develop strategies that will provide the most positive results for any access to internet materials related to specific exhibitions or continuing gallery programs. Teachers, parents and students should be aware that internet access to galleries or museums can provide a very different set of responses to an actual visit. Gallery or museum internet sites can be initially evaluated through the use of criteria based on the use of web page design techniques, as well as the complexity of information provided in each section of a web site.