A museum is an institution that cares for a collection of artifacts and other objects
of scientific, artistic, cultural, or historical importance and makes them available
for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary. Most large
museums are located in major cities throughout the world and more local ones exist
in smaller cities, towns and even the countryside The continuing acceleration in
the digitization of information, combined with the increasing capacity of digital
information storage, is causing the traditional model of museums (i.e. as static
“collections of collections” of three-dimensional specimens and artifacts) to expand
to include virtual exhibits and high-resolution images of their collections for perusal,
study, and exploration from any place with Internet connectivity.
