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MUSEUM ONLINE
http://www.museumonline.at

The objective of Museum Online is it to enable pupils and teachers - within the scope of project instruction - to engage in intensive analysis of regional, national and international art and culture; participants are furthermore enabled to get involved in thorough investigations concerning world cultural heritage (UNESCO) as well as the dealing with information and communication technologies (IKT). Therefore Museum Online consciously pursues an interdisciplinary approach. Pupils and teachers in cooperation with qualified representatives of museums, artistic, and cultural institutions gather and compile adequate contents, which are to be presented multilingually in the Internet. The dealing with questions of diverse aspects, such as technical innovative, art-historical or museum-oriented matters, is being demanded.
More than 280 projects are online in different languages, made by different type of schools and under participation of Countries from Eastern Countries and other neighbour countries.

Ergebnisse der Evaluierung  (19.01.2004)

Die Ergebnisse einer vorliegenden Evaluierung attestieren MUSEUM ONLINE große Erfolge. Durch zahlreiche Kooperationen zwischen Museen und/oder Kultureinrichtungen hat die österreichische Bildungslandschaft aus Sicht der ExpertInnen einen erheblichen Gewinn erfahren. Durch die Beteiligung diverser Heimatmuseen erfährt darüber hinaus der österreichische Tourismus da oder dort eine Bereicherung. Lesen Sie mehr ... (PDF, 100kB).

MUSEUM ONLINE – a Model in Favor of Cultural Education in the Age of Media

A Broadened Approach towards Education

In addition to a broadened approach towards education and interdisciplinary learning, the introduction of multi-media (in classroom activity) would connect the aesthetic dimension with contents. At this point the cultural education comes into operation, serving as a (necessary) supplement to the technical possibilities and thereby fulfilling an essential task.

Prof. Dr. Karl-Josef Pazzini of the University of Hamburg cites in his study "Cultural Education in the Age of Multi-Media" the opportunities, which unfold when cultural education meets with multi-media, as follows:

Click this URL for the Österreichische Bundesmuseen online

Die gemeinsame Homepage aller österreichischen Bundesmuseen war in den Anfängen des Internets eine zukunftsweisende Pionierleistung unter Federführung des Naturhistorischen Museums.

Mittlerweile haben alle Museen ihre eigenständigen Internetseiten, die sie selbstständig betreuen und aktualisieren