I have to echo all the opinions expressed today about the new website. I don't
send messages to the MCG list very often, if at all. I usually find the subject
matter of great interest and extremely helpful but is this some kind of April
Fool we're being dragged into. If it is a joke its not funny lets support each
other not slag off other peoples work.
Wendy Turner
Head of Collections Documentation
National Museums of Scotland
Ian Crawley wrote:
> museum-guide.co.uk is a new website which aims to look at the mediocre, the
> bad and the downright ugly in the ever growing world of museum websites in
> the United Kingdom. In the headlong rush to get online, many museums have
> produced websites which do them no credit. The need to stake a place in
> cyber space has meant that many museums have rushed ahead with websites,
> often employing volunteers or inexperienced, untested and unskilled people.
> Curators would not employ these people to design museum displays, yet they
> are quite happy to let them loose on a museum website which has an
> unlimited potential audience. museum-guide.co.uk will highlight poor or
> indifferent web design and content, in the hope that it will stimulate
> higher standards of website creation.
>
> The launch has focused on three museum websites, Neath Museum, Bolton
> Museums and Camborne Mining Museum. A new website will be added every two
> weeks.
>
> The new website can be found at www.museum-webguide.co.uk
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Wendy Turner
Head of Collections Documentation
Tel: 0131 247 4131
Fax: 0131 247 4312
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