She joined the Science Museum as Head of Collections Management in 1992. S. Keene editor. London, Science Museum. Keene, S. Managing Conservation in Museums . Further information is available at Suzanne Keene's Web site .
Museums consist of people, collections and buildings.
We have not worked out yet the utility of the collection itself. In the case of unreconstructed old museums, the virtual doesn't have a lot to offer. In the reconstructed new museums the virtual does complement and enrich the actual. The virtual is ephemeral. Virtual productions, like exhibitions, do go out of fashion.