WEB DRIVEN INFORMATION SYSTEM OF NIGERIAN MUSEUMS

CHAPTER ONE

1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

Digital museums appeared in the Internet many years ago. First digital museums have emerged since 1991. However, despite the identity and quality of exhibitions their exhibits are comparable with traditional art museum publications albums, catalogues and books, while the Internet can create a qualitatively new displays, where previously impossible or inconsistent methods of display historical and artistic heritage have been set up. What is the identity of the museum, in which you enter The main feature is that here are collections, which actually stored in different museums in different countries or even on different continents or does not exist at all.

1.2 What is a digital museum

The first definition of what a digital museum is, was simply the website of a

physical museum. A concept of a museum without walls had, however, been introduced as early as 1953 by Malraux, who imagined it being an environment for the presentation of mainly photography and art. The term Digital museum was first coined by Tsichritzis and Gibbs in their article Digital museums and digital realities referring to a museum constructed for a digital landscape and functioning as a service rather then a location.