Museums and the Web

Overview

The conference considers the interdisciplinary museological field of how museums and their users can benefit from the use of the World Wide Web. All papers from the conferences are freely available on the web. Selected papers are published in a printed proceedings each year. The first conference in 1997 attracted around 400 delegates from around the world and subsequent conferences have attracted even more.

Museums and the Web includes the GLAMi awards (The Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums Innovation awards) which recognizes the best GLAM work in the sector. Projects are nominated by GLAM professionals from around the world and reviewed by a committee of peers. The conference previously included annual "Best of the Web awards" awards for museum-related websites in a number of different categories, as well as an overall winner.

Individual conferences

The following events have been held or are planned:

1. MW1997, March 16–19, 1997 — Los Angeles, California, United States
2. MW1998, April 22–25, 1998 — Toronto, Ontario, Canada
3. MW1999, March 11–14, 1999 — New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
4. MW2000, April 16–19, 2000 — Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
5. MW2001, March 14–17, 2001 — Seattle, Washington, USA
6. MW2002, April 17–20, 2002 — Boston, Massachusetts, USA
7. MW2003, March 19–22, 2003 — Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
8. MW2004, March 31 – April 3, 2004 — Arlington, Virginia / Washington DC, USA
9. MW2005, April 13–17, 2005 — Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
10. MW2006, March 22–25, 2006 — Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
11. MW2007, April 11–14, 2007 — San Francisco, California, USA
12. MW2008, April 8–12, 2008 — Montreal, Quebec, Canada
13. MW2009, April 14–18, 2009 — Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
14. MW2010, April 13–17, 2010 — Denver, Colorado, USA
15. MW2011, April 6–9, 2011 — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
16. MW2012, April 11–14, 2012 — San Diego, California, USA
17. MW2013, April 17–20, 2013 — Portland, Oregon, USA
18. MWA2013, December 9–12, 2013 — Hong Kong
19. MWF2014, February 19–21, 2014 — Florence, Italy
20. MW2014, April 2–5, 2014 — Baltimore, Maryland, USA
21. MWA2014, October 7–10, 2014 — Daejeon & Seoul, South Korea
22. MW2015, April 8–11, 2015 — Chicago, Illinois, USA
23. MWA2015, October 5–9, 2015 — Melbourne, Australia
24. MW2016, April 6–9, 2016 — Los Angeles, California, USA
25. MW2017, April 19–22, 2017 — Cleveland, Ohio, USA