Is An Online-Only Museum Really A Museum At All?

“Middlesex University’s Museum of Domestic Design & Architecture (MoDA) closed its public gallery spaces last summer,” going online-only. MoDA’s senior curator insists “that MoDA is still a museum – after all, the point of a museum is to share collections and it will still do that.” She also “reject[s] the term ‘virtual museum’, which she said implies that it doesn’t exist in reality.”