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MDC launched the project Museums of Croatia on the Internet (MHI in the Croatian version) in 1996. To date, 33 museum institutions have been presented under the aegis of the project, all told 50 museums, when their local collections and subsidiaries are included. It was our ambition, through the systematic presentation of museums as a valuable and interesting part of the Croatian cultural heritage, to bring museums and the museum material closer to the public via a medium that has from the beginning of the project undergone such vigorous expansion and such enormous changes. This was in fact a pioneering undertaking at that time, when there were still very few museums in the world at large to have their own Web sites. It was the first step taken by Croatian museums out of their own physical spaces, many of which at that time had been damaged by the war, the material being placed in secure stores and thus made inaccessible. It was also the way to make the fastest and most effective use of the new information technologies in museums. The first steps in the digitalisation of the museum material, which is to say the cultural heritage as a whole and the creation of digital collections, were also closely tied to MHI. This move into the global virtual world contributed to museums being more open and communicative, and conversely its aim was to bring more real visitors into the museum. From the very beginning the project was acknowledged as a new value. Prizes and recognitions received bear witness to this: the prize of the portal Internet Monitor for the best scenario and for the amount of content presented, for the quality of design and the importance for Croatian culture in 1998; there was also the CARNet Users Conference – CUC99 – recognition; and in 1999 the project was mentioned in the UNESCO publication World Culture Report 2000 as one of the 200 best cultural projects in the world for the new millennium. The presentation of the first ten museums was supported by the Croatian Academic Network or CARNet; in 1999 a CD Rom was issued – Hrvatski muzeji 1/Croatian Museums 1, with twenty museum web sites from the MHI project. The presentation of the museums was conceived as providing a guide through the museums, through their collections and their finest and most typical material. It is structured according to certain basic headings: general information, history of the museum collection, selected objects from the collections, museum activities, permanent display. We have done our best to include museums from all parts of Croatia, from those with heterogeneous collections that are significant for a given town or region, down to specialised museums related to a particular discipline or person. From the very outset we insisted on presenting the contexts in several languages. Experts from MDC, numerous experts from all the museums represented, the firm Novena and other consultants all took part in the preparation of the material and creation of the site. The holdings of the museums and the MDC collection were used in the presentations, the material quite often being photographed precisely for the project. Accordingly, we would like to thank all our co-workers most heartily for their assistance, efforts and enthusiasm. During the past twelve years, we have endeavoured to keep up with changes in the museum activity, with the development of the technological capacities and designer approaches, and to pay heed to what the museums want. By working on the project, we too have learned, have developed, and the result is the current MDC Web site, in which, in various ways and shapes, contents originally presented as part of MHI are now accessible. Because of the obsolescence of certain technological approaches (particularly those on the early Web sites), and because of our wish to use our database about Croatian museums and to automate the updating of information, particularly under the headings General Information and Activities, we decided to archive the existing situation of the MHI project (February 20, 2008), as a document of the state of affairs in the museums presented at a given moment, of the ways of thinking about museums and the technological solutions. But the descriptions of collections and depictions of museum objects as well as the numerous permanent displays are still current and topical, can still be used as a worthwhile source of data. Up-to-date information about all Croatian museums (general information) is to be found on the pages of Museums Survey [Survey of Museums] you can browse the activities of museums in the Calendar of Events; a review of publishing activity is accessible in the MDC Library Catalogue and Accessions Bibliography.
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Projekt Muzeji Hrvatske na Internetu (MHI) MDC je pokrenuo 1996. g. i do danas su u sklopu njega predstavljene 33 muzejske ustanove, odnosno ukupno 50 muzeja, njihovih područnih zbirki i lokaliteta. Sustavnim predstavljanjem muzeja kao vrijednoga i zanimljivog dijela hrvatske kulturne baštine željeli smo muzeje i muzejsku građu približiti javnosti putem medija koji je od početka projekta do danas doživio silnu ekspanziju i velike promjene. Riječ je o uistinu pionirskom pothvatu u vrijeme kada su još malobrojni muzeji u svijetu imali svoje web siteove. Bio je to prvi izlazak hrvatskih muzeja izvan njihovih fizičkih prostora, od kojih su u to doba mnogi od njih bili oštećeni ratnim razaranjima, a građa pohranjena u depoima i nedostupna. Bio je to i način kako najbrže i najefikasnije primijeniti nove informacijske tehnologije u muzejima. Uz MHI su vezani prvi koraci u digitalizaciji muzejske građe, odnosno kulturne baštine općenito, te stvaranje digitalnih zbirki. Taj iskorak u globalni virtualni svijet pridonio je i većoj otvorenosti i komunikativnosti muzeja, a njegov je cilj, među ostalim, bio i dovođenje većeg broja posjetitelja u muzeje. Projekt je od samoga početka prepoznat kao nova vrijednost. O tome svjedoče i nagrade i priznanja: nagrada časopisa Internet Monitor za najbolji scenarij te za količinu predstavljenog sadržaja, kvalitetu dizajna i značaj za hrvatsku kulturu, 1998.; posebno priznanje CARNet Users Conference - CUC'99, 1999. te uvrštenje u UNESCO-vu publikaciju World Culture Report 2000 kao jednoga od 200 najboljih svjetskih kulturnih projekata za novo tisućljeće. Hrvatska akademska mreža CARNet podržala je prezentaciju prvih deset muzeja, a 1999. g. objavljen je CD-ROM Hrvatski muzeji 1 = Croatian museums 1, s dvadeset muzejskih web siteova iz projekta MHI. Predstavljanje muzeja koncipirano je kao vodič kroz muzeje, njihove zbirke i najreprezentativniju građu, a strukturirano je prema ovim osnovnim rubrikama: opći podaci, povijest muzeja, zbirke, odabrani predmeti iz zbirki, aktivnosti muzeja, stalni postav. Nastojali smo obuhvatiti muzeje iz svih dijelova Hrvatske, od onih s raznorodnim zbirkama važnim za određeni grad ili regiju, do specijaliziranih muzeja vezanih za specifičnu disciplinu ili osobu. Od samoga početka inzistirali smo na višejezičnosti prikaza sadržaja. U pripremi materijala i izradi stranica sudjelovali su stručnjaci MDC-a, brojni stručnjaci iz svih zastupljenih muzeja, tvrtka Novena i vanjski suradnici. U prezentacijama su korišteni fundusi muzeja, fondovi MDC-a, a građa se nerijetko fotografirala upravo za taj projekt. Stoga svim suradnicima zahvaljujemo na suradnji, trudu i entuzijazmu. Tijekom proteklih dvanaest godina nastojali smo pratiti promjene u muzejskoj djelatnosti, razvitak tehnoloških mogućnosti i dizajnerskih rješenja te osluškivati želje muzeja. Radom na projektu učili smo i razvijali se, a rezultat je i sadašnji web site MDC-a na kojemu su, na različite načine i u različitim oblicima, dostupni sadržaji prvotno predstavljeni u sklopu MHI-ja. Zbog zastarjelosti određenih tehnoloških rješenja (osobito onih na najranijim web siteovima), kao i želje da što bolje iskoristimo naše baze podataka o hrvatskim muzejima i automatiziramo ažuriranje podataka, ponajprije u rubrikama Opći podaci i Aktivnosti, odlučili smo arhivirati postojeću situaciju projekta MHI (20. veljače 2008.) kao dokument stanja u predstavljenim muzejima u određenom vremenu, muzeoloških promišljanja i tehnoloških rješenja. Opisi zbirki i prikazi muzejskih predmeta, kao i brojni stalni postavi još su uvijek aktualni te i nadalje mogu služiti kao relevantan izvor podataka. Ažurni podaci o svim hrvatskim muzejima nalaze se na stranicama Hrvatskih virtualnih muzeja. Aktivnosti muzeja možete pregledavati u Kalendaru događanja, a pregled izdavačke djelatnosti dostupan je u Katalogu knjižnice i Bibliografiji prinova knjižnice MDC-a. Muzeji su poredani redoslijedom izgradnje web stranica. Najgornji muzej je najnoviji. Posljednji put ažurirano siječanj 2008.