Canadian Museum Of Civilization Announces Its Official Entry Into
Cyberspace

HULL, Quebec -- December 16, 1994 -- We're on the "Net." The Canadian
Museum of Civilization (CMC), has become Canada's first Human History
Museum to officially enter the Global Village by inaugurating its World
Wide Web Information Service, a system for disseminating multimedia
information on the Internet. The Museum invites the millions of Internet
users in Canada and abroad to visit the Museum and to tour its exhibitions
by accessing on-line information, in French or in English, through the
World Wide Web. The service offers "surfers" an educational and visual
window on the history and mandate of the institution; its educational
materials; collections; current and future exhibitions; public programs;
as well as facilities, services and products available to the public.

This is the first stage of a multi-phase plan to create a "Museum Without
Walls", which will allow "virtual visits" to the Museum from anywhere in
the world. One component of the new service will be virtual gallery tours
through the Museum's exhibitions. Already available is a tour of the
Canada Hall -- a 900-year voyage through Canadian history. Tours of the
Grand Hall -- CMC's spectacular exhibition of Northwest Coast Native art
and culture, and the newly expanded Children's Museum -- a world-wide
journey of adventure and discovery -- are planned in the new year. Through
interactive imagemaps, World Wide Web users will be able to visit
exhibitions, obtain detailed multimedia information concerning the
Museum's collections, and electronically purchase items from the Museum's
cyberboutique.

To realize its vision of the future, the CMC has entered into a partnership
with Digital Equipment of Canada Ltd., which will provide the technical
and management expertise required to implement this leading-edge approach
to information access.

As part of a five-year strategic alliance, Digital and the CMC have
established a joint project team of experts to create an electronic
"Museum for the Global Village." The Digital team is part of the company's
Internet Expertise Centre, recently created in the National Capital Region
to serve its government and commercial customers currently becoming part
of the Internet system.

The CMC Web server is a pilot project which provides a prototype service
available to other museums and organizations who wish to purchase access
to the Global Village.

Dr. George MacDonald, Executive Director of the CMC, sees the new service
as an important early step in achieving the institution's strategic goal
of using new technologies to make information on Canadian heritage more
widely accessible nationally and internationally. With this outreach
program, the Museum will begin its transformation from a "traditional"
museum which collects, documents, conserves, exhibits, and interprets, to
a more accessible, participatory museum contributing to the understanding
between the various cultures that make up the Canadian mosaic and which
are part of the Global Village.

This outreach program will be the springboard to exciting new exhibition
technologies, increased information accessibility and enhanced
communications capabilities, and will assist the CMC in attaining its
vision of becoming a global world-class information resource for Canadians
and the world.

The Canadian Museum of Civilization welcomes all Internet users and future
Cyberspace travellers to come and tour its exhibitions and to experience
the "Museum Without Wall." To access CMC's World Wide Web server on the
Internet, connect to:

       http://www.cmcc.muse.digital.ca/

For information on purchasing access to the CMC World Wide Web server,
please contact Digital Equipment of Canada Ltd.

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