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Museums are rarely able to exhibit more than a fraction of the material they own, and even then the best stuff is too often sealed off behind glass or mobbed by school parties. There are no such problems on museum websites, where space is unlimited and objects, scanned in high definition, can be browsed in close-up. Here is the pick of the world’s collections.

1 louvre.fr

Frequently named the greatest museum in the world, this cornerstone of French culture has a website to match. Its size is staggering, but it is straightforward to navigate and its “virtual visit”, in which you click your way though the museum’s exquisitely adorned corridors, is not to be missed.

2 hermitagemuseum.org

3 www.vam.ac.uk

4 rijksmuseum.nl

5 Museum of the History of Science

6 www.culture24.org.uk

7 The Smithsonian

8 nationalarchives.gov.uk

9 museumstuff.com

10 sciencemuseum.org.ukRead more at technology.timesonline.co.uk