Website Notes

The DAC website serves the same educational goals as does the Davison Art Center, a university teaching museum with a collection consisting chiefly of some 25,000 works of art on paper. At present comprising about 500 web pages, the site helps to support in new ways the DAC's primary mission of enabling people to learn from objects in the museum collection. In doing this it attends above all to the pedagogical needs of Wesleyan University students and faculty.

The site's long-term strategy, information architecture, physical implementation, functionality, content, and visual design serve this end in ways that interlock with first-hand teaching and learning from original objects at the DAC. The online results of this work also benefit diverse and global constituencies of people at other universities and colleges, other museums, and K-12 schools, as well as the general public.

As well as dovetailing with teaching and learning at the museum, many information-sharing aspects of the site serve some of the same goals as do the Davison Art Center's museum publications in printed form, which for decades have been disseminating knowledge about objects in the collection.

Another page offers links to more technical information concerning selected aspects of why and how the DAC has chosen certain means of serving the museum site's users while communicating an accurate sense of the institution itself.