Archives & Museum Informatics: Museums and the Web 2010

Congratulations to the MW2010 Best of the Web Award Winners!

Museums and the Web is an annual conference exploring the social, cultural, design, technological, economic, and organizational issues of culture, science and heritage on-line. Taking an international perspective, MW reviews and analyzes the issues and impacts of networked cultural, natural and scientific heritage.

Our community has been meeting since 1997, imagining, tracking, analyzing, and influencing the role museums play on the Web, and having fun doing it.

The MW Program

See the full Program On-line. Or download the Final Program (PDF - 4.4MB)

MW featured plenary sessions, parallel sessions, un-conference sessions, museum project demonstrations, commercial exhibits, mini-workshops, professional forums, a usability lab, a design 'Crit Room,' and the Best of the Web awards.

Prior to the conference, there were full-day and half-day pre-conference workshops and a day of pre-conference tours.

Social events included receptions each evening, a Birds-of-a-Feather Lunch, and plenty of refreshment breaks provided lots of time to meet and talk with colleagues from around the world.

Who Attended MW?

People from 25 countries shared their experiences at MW2010.

Webmasters, educators, curators, librarians, designers, managers, directors, scholars, consultants, programmers, analysts, and developers from museums, galleries, libraries, science centers, and archives join the professionals, companies, foundations and governments that support them and attend Museums and the Web every year.

See the list of institutions that represented at MW2010 for a sense of the diversity of this fun, creative and enthusiastic group.

Program Selection

The MW2010 Program was selected through peer-review by an International Program Committee.

Scholarships and Volunteers

Archives & Museum Informatics awarded MW Scholarships to museum professionals from small institutions and developing countries.

Extensis offered Digital Asset Management Scholarships.

Students were invited to volunteer at MW; they attended the conference in return for helping out.

Can't Make It? Get the Book.

MW2010 Presenters submit written papers; the best appear in print in Museums and the Web 2010: Selected papers from an international conference. All papers are also published on-line and on CD-ROM. You can order a copy of the Selected Papers and CD-ROM on-line

Past papers from all Museums and the Web conferences – since 1997 – are on-line, and searchable. Printed volumes of Selected Papers from MW97 – MW2009 are also available to order.