Now, you can bring the museum to them via the Internet. Thanks to emerging technology, your students will be able to do much more than just read text online. They will be able to see pictures, hear sounds and, in some cases, conduct online experiments and interact with exhibits. Museums all over the world are rushing to jump onto the Internet. For good reason.
Online museums are among the most popular sites in cyberspace, and the proof is in the numbers.
More than 21,000 people visited the site in January 1995, just five months later. Visit a good online museum site and you'll see why they are so popular. Many of them are creating special virtual exhibits to showcase their collections and special treasures online. Most of them can be easily incorporated into your curriculum. If you're presenting a social studies unit on Asian cultures, you might want to have your students visit the Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland, which contains art treasures from Egypt, China, Japan, Cambodia and Thailand.