Evaluating the Digital Museums in Turkey via Content Analysis

Abstract

In the 20. Century, with the effect of the digital revolution and Information Society, museums have fundamentally changed both formally and structurally, and thanks to the network technologies the virtual museum has occurred. Turkey, as a candidate member of Information Society, has been struggling to adapt to these changes in economical, social and cultural senses. Whereat the government is trying to keep pace with the cultural changes in information society by implementing the "Virtual Museum" applications, which are important information sources in digital era. Within this framework, in this study, the virtual museums which were applied by the Turkish Ministry of Culture have been examined via content analysis. The results showed that, these applications are still insufficient in many ways.