The international conference about museums and the Web!

The eighth annual Museums and the Web conference took place March 31 - April 3, 2004. MW2004 was the premier international venue to review the state of the Web in arts, culture, and heritage.

When is the Next MW Conference?

Museums and the Web 2005
April 13-17, 2005
Vancouver, BC, Canada

The MW2004 Program
MW2004 opened with a plenary address from Jeffrey Zeldman, author of Designing with Web Standards, and closed with a paper from Peter Samis, of the Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco.

The formal program at MW2004 included plenary sessions, parallel sessions, museum project demonstrations, dozens of commercial exhibits, full-day and half-day pre-conference workshops, and one-hour mini-workshops combined with a day-long usability lab, a design "crit room", and the Best of the Web awards.The informal program at MW2004 included pre-conference tours, evening receptions each night, Birds-of-a-Feather breakfasts, and hours of discovery and debate among hundreds of colleagues from around the world.

Get the Book & Read the Papers
All papers presented at MW2004 are peer reviewed. Selected Papers are available in print, accompanied by a CD-ROM with all the papers presented at the meeting. Order on-line through Archives & Museum Informatics at http://www.archimuse.com/pub.order.html

All papers for MW2004 are also on-line.You can also find papers from past MWs on-line: follow the links from the Integrated Speakers List or Search the Archives & Museum Informatics Web Site.

Who Came?
Webmasters, educators, curators, librarians, designers, managers, and directors who work in museums, galleries libraries, archives, historic sites, and the professionals and companies that support them attended MW2004. See the list of institutions represented for a sense of the diversity.

Scholarships
Archives & Museum Informatics awarded five scholarships to enable international museum professionals to attend MW2004.

Need More Information?
Download the Final Program (PDF - 944 KB) or the Information Sheet (PDF).

Conference Co-Chairs

David Bearman and Jennifer Trant
Archives & Museum Informatics

MW2004 Program Committee

Organizers

Museums and the Web is organized by Archives & Museum Informatics.