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A virtual museum houses a collection of electronic artifacts and information resources-anything that are accessed through electronic media. The examples of collection are paintings, drawings, photographs, diagrams, graphs, recordings, video segments, newspaper articles, transcripts of interviews, and databases. It contains both actual objects that are digitized and objects that are digitally created. It is also an open door to great resources around the world relevant to the museum’s focus such as historical, scientific and cultural interest.

Other terms of virtual museum are online museum, electronic museum, hypermuseum, digital museum, cybermuseum or Web museum.

I think that a virtual museum can be a great component in the lessons for various subjects. It can help the teacher to create a fun, creative, and virtually effective class. I will look for more information about interesting websites of virtual museums and the integration of virtual museum to classroom.

Check out this Wikipedia link for virtual museum categorized by countries.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_museums

References:

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/630177/virtual-museum

http://fno.org/museum/muse.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_museum