Design and implementation of virtual museum based on web3d

  • Authors:
  • JianPing Zhang;YuHui Yang

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of educational technology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China;College of teacher education, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, China

  • Venue:
  • Transactions on Edutainment III
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In recent years, virtual museum has become more and more widespread and it plays an important role for effective utilizing of collected resources and protecting historical and cultural heritage and restoration of cultural relics. Moreover, virtual museum can make museum virtual resources to be spread and shared more broadly though Internet. This article takes “We are Yiwunese” virtual museum as an example and proposes how to develop a Web3D-based virtual museum. There are three main sections in the article: (1) Web3D technology; (2) development process of virtual museum based on Web3D; (3) functions and implementation of a practical virtual museum. The aim of the study is to provide some valuable references for development of virtual museum in the future.