WHY VIRTUAL MUSEUMS DISAPPOINT

Even as London’s Tate and New York’s Museum of Modern Art get set to launch ambitious virtual museums, a big question still remains: “Why is the Virtual Museum so boring? And it is. The cyber gallery is nearly always dense, confusing, difficult to navigate, devoid of passion and, worse, of intellect. Not only are these sites a betrayal of the ‘muse’ function at the core of the name museum, they often demand hours of downloading special software to handle special effects that are nothing special.” – New York Times