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The Importance of a Virtual Museum in a Third World Country: The Experience of MUVA, Virtual Museum of Arts El PaisAlicia Haber, MUVA EL PAIS Main
Session: Virtualizing Museums: the de-materialization of the Institution
This paper will address the experience of MUVA Museo Virtual de Artes
El Pais, Virtual Museum of Arts El Pais [ in
English and in
Spanish]. The focus is on the experience of creating and developing
a virtual museum in a peripheral and Third Word country. The construction
of a real art museum like the outstanding ones in the First World would
have cost a prohibitive sum for the Uruguayan economy. The Web was used
to overcome financial limitations. Uruguay doesn't have a modern, big,
state of the art museum but now it can have it, to an extent, in virtual
reality. That is why MUVA is projected to give the sensation of being
inside a real museum. Thus the building was designed by four architects
commissioned for the MUVA and later built for Internet by graphic designers
and webmasters. The visitor can actually walk inside the museum, take
the elevator, go up the stairs.
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