Ann Laenen

I still wonder. While working on the draft paper for the Daarkom e-culture strategy, I just realised that the word museum 2.0 is as easily used as web 2.0 to categorize websites using certain applications. Ok sites like the Indianapolis Museum of Art labeled as state of the art museum 2.0 on a couple of sites lately have a tagcloud, a blog, there is a link with youtube, there are rss feeds, there is a myspace link , a facebookpage, a fickr page and there is a podcast. It looks impressive and has a lot of (interesting) background information for the (online) visitor. Unfortunately not always easy to find your way through all of it though, even for someone who is used to work with the Internet. And what I do not find is where the sharing and (re)creating going on? Guess that is going to be the real challenge for a lot of museums and art galleries in the future: to let the online visitor intervene and become a currator, and not just to implement any kind of application available on the Internet right now.