This is surely one of the big stories in online exhibition and online galleries. Map collector David Rumsey has about 17,000 maps in his collection, many of the 18th and 19th century maps of North America.
Amazingly he has digitised all of these at full resolution and many are now on display in Second Life at Rumsey Maps islands. Rumsey has already teamed up with Google Earth to use 17 of his maps as Google earth textures. The online collections are themselves worth a trip but as an SL app it is peerless.
Rumsey also collaborates with a number of other image collections to bring their works into online galleries and exhibitions and to a wider public.
It's the type of pioneering work that points the way to how virtual worlds are going to enhance our appreciation of and access to historical documents and contemporary imagery. The online gallery and museum is transforming into the virtual gallery and virtual museums. We're beginning to see them emerge.
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