Click on one of these and the visitor is on a magic carpet ride to a different file server housed, perhaps, in Korea or New York or Boise. The beauty of a virtual museum is its capacity to connect the visitor with valuable information across the entire globe. These will then appear as hypertext links on museum pages. The collection process is never-ending. Multi-age classes may focus upon the same challenge for several years running without fear of repetition.
Students can actually see the fruits of their inquiry.
They become knowledge builders rather than mere consumers. Museums are also fine vehicles for multidisciplinary studies, as the collection may include everything from music and art to science and politics and mathematics. Virtual museums offer multi-sensory opportunities appealing to a variety of learning styles and multiple intelligences. One can see a Picasso. One can see and hear Tori Amos perform Cornflake Girl.