Museums and Virtual Museums in Europe: Reaching expectations

The paper presents an overview of the domain known as "Virtual Museums", as it appears after the four year project V-MUST.NET. It aims at describing the shift we are assisting in the museum perception and management, including how virtual museums are and can be integrated in exhibits, highlighting positive and negative elements. Visitors and curators expectations and possible answers are described, also referred to the "Keys To Rome" international exhibit example. It finally proposes new possible researches directions.