Product Information
Virtual Exhibit 5.0 (VE) is the instant website creator for PastPerfect Museum Software. Virtual Exhibit converts selected collection records and images from PastPerfect to HTML for posting on the World Wide Web. Point and click on the records you want to share and VE will create all of the HTML and related files you will need to upload to your website in order to put your exhibit online. No HTML programming knowledge is required to create informative, attractive and intuitive Web based exhibits.
Product Description
Virtual Exhibit is the web designer that works for you and is now based on industry standard Cascading Style Sheets!
- CREATE a website in just a few minutes from your PastPerfect catalog records.
- DESIGN a custom website with no web design or HTML programming experience.
- PROVIDE unprecedented public access to your collection for researchers and students.
- SHARE your history organization's mission and vision on the World Wide Web.
- CONNECT with a new generation of museum patrons.
- SUPPORT your museum's in-house exhibits with complementary Virtual Exhibits.
VE is a great way to promote your museum's exhibits and events.
You select which records from your PastPerfect Objects, Photos, Archives, and Library catalogs to include, and which data fields to share. Virtual Exhibit automates the work, and allows you to personalize the home page, color scheme, font size, image size, and more with simple on-screen selections. Since Virtual Exhibit is now based on Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) the possibilities for customization by your Web designers are endless.
The Virtual Exhibit 5.0 User Guide is available at http://museumsoftware.com/v5ug/pdf/PP5-28.pdf.
Using the data in the evaluation copy of PastPerfect 5.0 we created a very basic site without modifying any css nor creating banner images. See that site here. Also check out the more advanced site that we created simply by creating a banner image and customizing colors!
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The Women's History and Resource Center uses Virtual Exhibit to provide a timeline overview of the General Federation of Women's Clubs. In a second exhibit, they use VE to access images of past presidents and provide a gateway to their archival records stored in PastPerfect-Online. The template they have chosen is simple and clean, representing a nice example of what Virtual Exhibit creates "right out of the box." |
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Olympia Tumwater Foundation has a great collection of photographs and archives arranged to tell the story of the Old Brew house. They use links to PDF documents to allow the viewer to gather even more primary source information on the topic. Their images are automatically resized and watermarked by Virtual Exhibit to reduce the risk of unauthorized use. |
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Douglas County, Colorado has an excellent example of how a VE site can be integrated into the already existing county website. By using their own custom home page and linking to the stylized pages of Virtual Exhibit, they achieve a seamless transition from county business to the county's rich collection of cultural artifacts. |
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The San Anselmo Historical Museum uses Virtual Exhibit to share a sample of their extensive collection of photographs via the World Wide Web. A few of the area's landmarks are illuminated in a very clean and simple way. |
**Please note: Virtual Exhibit 5.0 requires that you have PastPerfect version 5.0 or higher with the MultiMedia and Virtual Exhibit Upgrades.
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