This site is effectively an online museum guide as opposed to a virtual museum

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Ease of use

Nice Graphical navigation, without too many bells and whistles. Site is geared to Flash enabled browsers.

Quantity

There is a lot of information available but not much of a comprehensive nature

Includes many facets of the museum but is more of a guide as to what is contained within the museum as opposed to a virtual museum. As such it is objective but not particularly informative, although does express just how much is availabe within the museum. A degree of interactivity is established with the option to email feedback and also an option to download activity leaflets for school vivists amongst other things.

Management

I did find that a few of the links on the home page were not working and the search engine was experiencing difficulties.

Recommendation

The site is well worth a visit despite not being fully operational but may prove disappointing to some. It should not be viewed as an online virtual museum, but more as a virual museum guide.

Speculations

As a an online guide the site is relatively effective but I would have imagined that the future for this type of site will feature fully interactive 3D museum pieces, with a more multimedia aspect. However, surely the whole point of visiting a museum is to get a feel or hands on approach to the artifacts or museum peices

Absolutely as the title suggests

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Ease of use

Very easy to use, simple interface.

Quantity

Ample information available, all of which is comprehensive

Comprehensiveness

I found the definitions to be thorough yet concise, and the use of hyperlinks to related subjects clarified matters enought to rival a traditional hard copy dictionary.

Each page loaded quickly and the designer seemed to have avoided using many graphics in order to allow each definition page to download quickly. I found no dead links on any of my searches.

Recommendation

I found the site to be very comprehnsive and useful, and would recommend it primarily as a resource to compliment more traditional texts.

Speculations

I believe this type of site will come into it's own when more people have access to higher bandwidth Internet connections, as the text only appearance is somewhat limiting. A picture paints a thousand words and perhaps this may develop in time into a multimedia dictionary.