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Museums use exhibitions as the main channel for communication with visitors. However, the Internet has opened new perspectives both for large museums and smaller special collections. The virtual visit of museums has become widely popular. One way to find museums’ pages is to link to them via the directories called Virtual Library Museums Pages (VLMP) that allow access to more and more museums and galleries worldwide. Many visitors start their search on the homepage of the International Council of Museums (ICOM). A Hungarian example of virtual museums is the Web Gallery of Art (http://www.wga.hu/ ) that is a searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the 12^th-18^th centuries.

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