The international conference about museums and the Web!

The sixth annual Museums and the Web conference was the premier international venue to review the state of the Web in arts, culture, and heritage. The MW2002 program addressed Web-related issues for museums, archives, libraries and other cultural institutions.

Speakers from around the world summarized their activities in sessions and panels. Pre-conference workshops provided in-depth study of methods and issues in design, development, evaluation and maintenance of heritage Web sites. Throughout MW2002, a variety of session formats including the Crit Rooms, a Usability Lab, Mini-Workshops, and Demonstrations offered diverse modes of presentation. An Exhibit Hall featured the latest in commercial technology and services. A variety of evening social events ensured plenty of opportunity to build personal networks.

When is the next MW Conference?

Museums and the Web 2003
March 19-22, 2003
Charlotte, North Carolina
http://www.archimuse.com/mw2003/

Museums and the Web 2004
March 31-April 3, 2004
Arlington, Virginia
http://www.archimuse.com/mw2004/

Who Came?

Webmasters, educators, curators, librarians, designers, managers, and directors from over 20 countries who work in museums, libraries, archives, historic sites, and the companies that support them. See a list of institutions represented at MW2002.

Best of the Web Awards

Once again, MW2002 recognized the best cultural and heritage Web sites. See who was nominated. Awards were announced at the conference.

Exhibit Hall

MW2002 featured a fully networked Exhibit Hall which showcased the latest in products and services for creating and enhancing cultural heritage and educational Web sites.

Sponsorship

Thanks to our sponsors.

Conference Co-Chairs

David Bearman and Jennifer Trant
Archives & Museum Informatics

Flavia Sparacino
MIT Media Lab

Local Arrangements Committee

Philip Getchell, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Edward Rodley, Museum of Science, Boston

Program Committee

Susan Chun The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY, USA Jim Devine University of Glasgow Glasgow, Scotland Karen Elinich Franklin Institute Science Museum Philadelphia, PA, USA Kati Geber Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN) Hull, Quebec, Canada Susan Hazan The Israel Museum, Jerusalem Jerusalem, Israel Norbert Kanter Zetcom AG Berlin, Germany Cary Karp Swedish Museum of Natural History Stockholm, Sweden Carl Lagoze Cornell University Ithaca, NY, USA Mike Lowndes The Natural History Museum, London London, England Paul Marty Spurlock Museum, University of Illinois Urbana, IL, USA Marc Nanard LIRRM Montpellier, France Liddy Nevile Sunrise Research Melbourne, Australia

Paolo Paolini Politecnico di Milano Milano, Italy Xavier Perrot UniversitEde Metz Metz, France Sam Quigley Harvard University Art Museums Cambridge, MA, USA Jorge Gustavo Rocha Universidade do Minho Braga, Portugal Beth Sandore University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL, USA Thom Sempere San Francisco Museum of Modern Art San Francisco, CA, USA Peter Sigmond Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, The Netherlands Flavia Sparacino MIT Media Cambridge, MA, USA Kevin Sumption Powerhouse Museum Haymarket, Australia Tine Wanning National Museum of Denmark Copenhagen, Denmark Karen Worcman Museum of the Person Sao Paulo, Brazil

Scholarships

• Ana Carr, University of Guadalajara
• Coralia Costas, Moldova Complex of Museums
• Jordan Detev, Bulgarian MultimediaArts Society

Get the Book & CD-ROM

The Proceedings of MW2002 (CD-ROM) and Museums and the Web 2002: Selected Papers are available. Proceedings from past Museums and the Web Conferences (1997 - 2001) and of the International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meeting (ichim) (1991 - 2001) are also available, see the Archives & Museum Informatics Order Form for details.

Past Museums and the Web Conferences

See the programs and papers of past Museums and the Web conferences on-line:

• MW2002, Boston, Massachusetts
• MW2001, Seattle, Washington
• MW2000, Minneapolis, Minnesota
• MW99, New Orleans, Louisiana
• MW98, Toronto, Ontario
• MW97, Los Angeles, California

Future Museums and the Web Websites

• MW2003, Charlotte, North Carolina
• MW2004, Arlington, Virginia