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History of The Lost Museum of Sciences
The Lost Museum of Sciences was created in October, 1995, and made its debut on the World Wide Web that Halloween Eve. Soon after, the site URL was submitted to several web search engines. People began visiting the Lost Museum with an attendance of roughly 400 people per month. At first, the site listed about 130 science museum links which seemed to be all the science museums on the web at that time. This list rapidly grew over the following months as the world's museums embraced this new media. By the Lost Museum's first anniversary, it listed 433 science museum links, 218 related links, for a total of 651 links. Despite controversy among museum professionals as to whether web sites should be considered "museums," the Lost Museum was welcomed as a friendly means of promoting awareness of science museums across the globe.
Aside from providing a useful collection of museum links, the Lost Museum offered opportunities for museological recreation. The original game of the Lost Museum site was Find The Exhibit. A second game, World Muse Trivia, was introduced in February, 1996. Roughly every month, someone conquers one of these puzzles of web deduction and earns champion status in the Lost Museum.
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