Virtual exploration of the collection

Organizers can prepare a navigable digital setting using object representations, selected spatial arrangements, contextual accounts, contributed histories. A remote visitor can move among possessions, inspect details, follow connections, ask questions, contribute another response. Staff decide the relation between the virtual arrangement and a particular physical installation.

A visitor can inspect a scanned page, examine its annotation, follow a link to a photograph, compare earlier accounts. A three-dimensional view may preserve spatial relations from an installation. Another digital arrangement can group material around a question absent from the physical room. Staff record the arrangement and the visitor's available information.

Remote encounters can extend participation before or after a physical visit. They provide different opportunities from handling, shared presence, material use. Researchers compare the actual conditions and consequences. A contribution made remotely can become a printed reply or a proposal for a later meeting under its own publication and participation arrangement.

Object layers, addresses, conversation, physical activity support this extension. The virtual setting remains a later capability within the complete proposal; the current website explains its operation through linked notes.