Though you may think of museums or special collections first, digital exhibits can also be useful tools for scholars, professors, and students to showcase their work. Digital exhibits can allow scholars to...
Place artifacts within a larger context
Increase availability and accessibility of resources (expertise, collections, content)
Omeka is a web publishing platform designed for libraries, museums, archives, and scholars to display collections and exhibits. Download the Omeka source code to host it on your own server space.
Exhibit lets you easily create web pages with advanced text search and filtering functionalities, with interactive maps, timelines, and other visualizations
Viewshare is a free platform for generating and customizing views (interactive maps, timelines, facets, tag clouds) that allow users to experience your digital collections.
A collaboration between the UWM Libraries Digital Humanities Lab and the Jewish Museum Milwaukee, this exhibit presents recovered artifacts as a window into the lives of those who perished.
