An approach to designing and implementing virtual museums

The current paper describes an approach to designing and imple- menting a virtual environment comprising ten different museums. The num- ber of museums as well as the variety of their exhibits lead to the adoption of a generalised strategy that catered for all museum presentation needs and al- lowed for future expansion. Furthermore, the system architecture supports the delivery of multimedia content either over the Internet or via a local im- mersive virtual reality installation.