Hosted by The University of Leicester; sponsored by The 24 Hour Museum, mwr and Simulacra.

Thank you to all participants and speakers for making the day such an inspiring and successful event.

Presentations and conclusions are below.

UK Museums and the Web is not affiliated to Archimuse’s North American Museums and the Web conference.

Today, amidst the information age, the idea of ‘object’, ‘visit’ and (even) ‘site’ have been transformed. The ‘collections’ our visitors engage with are just as likely to be digital in format, bringing with them an array of new curatorial challenges as well as audience expectations.

Our community holds one of the richest sources of such information and knowledge available in the world. Much of this knowledge does not make it into physical galleries, but can be ideal for the web. In communicating this knowledge we need to understand the world of publishing better and consider seriously the permanence of digital material and access to it. At the same time we need to aid understanding of the widest possible audiences by explaining and bringing to life its value to them. A tall order, and all within our limited budgets.

Squaring up to these major changes, and by drawing together a range of practitioners, consultants, scholars, policy makers and industrialists this year’s UK Museums and the Web conference focuses attention on to the ‘digital object’.