Traditional Fine Arts Organization
Materials to be maintained in the museum website's "past exhibitions" section
We:
-- favor grants to museums that publish in-depth, exhibition-specific, materials online concerning future, current and past exhibitions in the exhibitions section of their websites. As a general rule, the more materials archived the better.
- believe that online catalogs, brochures and gallery guides should be available to the public without charge. Many museums have decided that freely available online brochures and catalogs - some locked out for download or content copying - broadly serve the global public, aren't materially detrimental to their net operating income and serve to further their mission statement's education component. Freely available online versions of paper-printed brochures and catalogs don't materially affect sale of print versions.
-- require that online information posted concerning an exhibition be archived and available to the public without charge.
-- would like to hear about exhibition-related materials to be retained in your website's "past exhibitions" section, always available to the public without charge, such as.
*For instance, we are impressed with Issuu's flip book format. We think it's easier to navigate than .pdf files.
**Leisure in the Landscape at the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University includes a virtual tour containing hotspots for all artworks in the physical exhibition. Most online tours, however, feature a limited percentage of artworks, fall short in attention to close-up artwork details and clarity of descriptive texts. We would like to know the percentage of artworks that will have hotspots, their magnification steps and readability of labels and wall texts.
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