what will the museum of the future be like?

Cross-institutional websites?

I was wondering if someone here knew about websites / portals that combine collections from several museums? This here is called Culture Sampo: http://www.kulttuurisampo.fi/index.shtml and it is drawing information from 20 different museums and archives (unfortunately much of the material is only in Finnish language). Are you aware of any parallel developments?

I'm writing an article about sharing information and collections between museums and would be grateful of any ideas, thanks!

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Permalink Reply by Michael Parry on February 26, 2010 at 9:58am

Project here in Melbourne looking at cross agency content aggregation from a few years ago... http://cv.vic.gov.au/

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Permalink Reply by Kaija Kaitavuori on February 26, 2010 at 10:01pm

Thank you all for you answers, it's really helpful and interesting!

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Permalink Reply by Fay Valcanis on March 24, 2010 at 12:16pm

Have you had a look at Collectish. Its a service developed by Museum Victoria that help individuals organise their collections, share them with others and explore the private collections of the world. The website will suggest things from other places that you might also be interested in.

www.collectish.com/

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Permalink Reply by Leonard Steinbach on March 25, 2010 at 7:41pm

The Web site of FRAME (French Regional American Museum Exchange) www.framemuseums.org attempts to bring together a wide range of information from 12 French and 12 American museums.