Though the company is now defunct, if you go onto the Symbolics.com, it's almost like an Internet museum--like the barn in New Jersey where Thomas Edison made his first movie.
The Words and Pictures Museum of Fine Sequential Art, founded in Northampton, Mass., in 1990 by Kevin B. Eastman, a creator of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, gave up its museum building after 1999 in favor of an all-Internet museum site devoted to contemporary comic-book art (www.wordsandpictures.org).org
Mr. Gottlieb said his new company would represent clients in film, television, Internet and museum exhibition deals as well as books.
Thanks to reviews in books and on the Internet, the museum has secured a place on the international map of eccentric collections.
Many virtual museums have their roots in "Web sites" or "home pages" maintained on the Internet by museums in order to disseminate information about themselves.
The term refers to the culturally meaningful visual content that appears in multiple forms in daily life: print images (in books, textbooks, magazines), TV, Internet, advertising, museums, etcetera.
With today's tiny, high-resolution video cameras and Internet technology, nervous museum officials can now view their galleries (and their guards) from a central control room -- or even from home.
Learn a bit first through books, the internet, a local museum, a ranger, or educational program.
Visionary Art has become a way of introducing evolutionary symbolism to the cultural meme stream through the internet, galleries and museums, print media, tattoos, fashion, clubs and festivals.
The artwork can be viewed on the museum's Internet site, at tenement.org/HardPlace.org/HardPlace
