The Journal of Culture Contents ISSN:2287-2256(Print) 2671-7026(Online) 문화콘텐츠연구

This exploratory study delas with how museums offer museum information and art and culture education for better appreciation of aritistic works in and around the museum via online museums. Museum furthers from the traditional role of unilaterally providing the messages concerned with the aesthetic value of artistic works towards the efforts to be more approachable by emphasizing the publicness of the museum as an integrated cultural complex. Museums in the digital age are trying to overcome the limits of time and space in the physical museum by providing diverse channels to the museum visitors, online ad offline, thanks to the advances in technology. This study compares between National Museum of Mocern and Contemporary Art (henceforth MMCA) in Korea and Tate Gallery in the United Kingdom to analyze how digital contents of both museums are exhibited online for communication with the visitors. Both museum demonstrate differences in the amount of the content and how the content can be arranged in the online site. Implications of Tate Online to MMCA is that MMCA needs to improve how to communicate online by concerting more efforts for visitors to navigate more efficiently and effectively in the online museum.