我国博物馆界在20世纪80年代中期开始使用计算机。随着数字化技术的应用,互联网已成为展示、传递和获取知识的重要渠道。博物馆作为科学教育的基地应该实现数字化, 利用互联网优势,建立起网上博物馆。国外一些博物馆已在这方面取得成功的经验,我国正在着手这方面的工作,将博物馆的收藏、陈列、研究、教育、娱乐等功能在互联网上表现出来,使博物馆的文物、标本及其相关信息展现在广阔的社会文化中,探索21世纪博物馆发展的新道路。 The Chinese museum community started using computers in the mid-1980s. With the application of digital technology, the Internet has become an important channel for displaying, transmitting and acquiring knowledge. Museum as a science education base should be digital, the use of the Internet to establish an online museum. Some foreign museums have had successful experience in this field. Our country is proceeding with the work in this area to display museum collections, exhibitions, research, education and entertainment on the Internet and make the museum’s artifacts and specimens and their related information Show in the vast social culture, to explore the development of the 21st century museum new road.