Great museum websites

[bunn]

Does anyone have any opinions on great museum websites that you have run across recently?  If so, what struck you as good about 'em?  I'm on the hunt for ideas.

I do like the Ashmolean one - even if I'm not 100% convinced by the slideshow, the way they get a lot of good points for the museum onto the homepage without it looking cluttered is very nice.

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[king-pellinor.livejournal.com]

No opinions on museum websites, except that the Winchcome Folk & Police Museum one is an excellent example of how to get a punchy message about a fantastic museum across even in a very simple site*.

But the new HMRC one is completely rubbish. It used to have information in it, and allowed you do do stuff. Now it's a glossy brochure that you can flick through, but all the actually useful bits are hidden away. If it were a museum website it might be quite good, but it's not and it's not. Grump :-(



*I am contractually obliged to write this

[bunn.livejournal.com]

I think it is fair to say that all the websites I create fall somewhere between Winchcombe Folk & Police Museum, and HMRC. :-DDD