[Museumfriends] Internet Museum??

[Barry Say]

I agree with both of the contributors on this topic. I would like to 
see information about the collections as widely disseminated as 
possible, and I think part of the role of the friends would be to 
encourage a good web-presence for the museum at a level to  interest  
specialists. This would not preclude a parallel, 'populist' approach. 

However, this is not the time to pursue this aspect as I think our 
primary aim should be to campaign for a stable future for the museum.

Museums are often wary about allowing photographs of their 
collections to be widely disseminated, unless they can see some 
financial benefit, and I can easily understand why.

Barry Say


> 
> 'it would be a good idea to ensure the
> contents of the museum are adequately logged so that if they do have to be
> stored temporarily, pending removal to a new site, data such as photos,
> measured drawings, a catalogue etc could be put up on the internet'
> 
> The weakness of this, tactically, is that the Dunbars of this world would see 
> it as 'proof' that a real rather than a virtual museum, in the Chantry or 
> elsewhere, is unnecessary. The cost of doing it properly would not be cheap - 
> what did FARNE cost? And at the end of the day the collections might still be in 
> a crate somewhere, which is the last thing we want.
> 
> John Gibbons.
>