Virtual Biology Museum: A virtual museum with information on the biological species housed within the physical museum. The visitor is able to view images of skulls, skins, and skeletons instead of merely tables or spreadsheets as in a typical database. Students can see pictures of habitats, videos of living animals, and hear the sounds of the animals. Distribution and density maps are available. Computer-generated rendering allows the visitor to rotate and view specimens from any angle or visually walk around a skeletal articulation of the animal.
Virtual Museum: A database-driven website where the visitor can explore and learn in an interactive manner. The website provides an organized collection of electronic artifacts and information resources” virtually anything that can be digitized (McKenzie, 1997). A good virtual museum will allow the visitor to perform searches ranging from simple questions to those of greater depth.
