Cover -- Contents -- Introduction: Museums in a Digital Culture: How Art and Heritage Become Meaningful / Chiel van den Akker and Susan Legêne -- 1. Touched from a Distance: The Practice of Affective Browsing / Martijn Stevens -- 2. Visual Touch: Ekphrasis and Interactive Art Installations / Cecilia Lindhé -- 3. Breathing Art: Art as an Encompassing and Participatory Experience / Christina Grammatikopoulou -- 4. Curiosity and the Fate of Chronicles and Narratives / Chiel van den Akker -- 5. Networked Knowledge and Epistemic Authority in the Development of Virtual Museums / Anne Beaulieu and Sarah de Rijcke -- 6. Between History and Commemoration: The Digital Monument to the Jewish Community in the Netherlands / Serge ter Braake -- 7. From the Smithsonian's MacFarlane Collection to Inuvialuit Living History / Kate Hennessy -- Conclusion / Chiel van den Akker -- Notes on Contributors -- Index -- List of Figures -- Figure 1 - Philip James De Loutherbourg. The Vision of the White Horse 1798 -- Figure 2 - Char Davies. Breathing and balance interface used in the performance of immersive virtual reality environments Osmose (1995) and Ephémère (1998) -- Figure 3 - Char Davies. Forest Grid, Osmose (1995). Digital still captured in real-time through HMD (head-mounted display) during live performance of the immersive virtual environment Osmose -- Figure 4 - George Khut. Cardiomorphologies v.2 (2005). Interactive installation -- Figure 5 - Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau. Mobile Feelings II (2003). Interface devices -- Figure 6 - Anton Raphael Mengs (1772/73). The Triumph of History over Time: Allegory of the Museum Clementinum. Ceiling fresco in the Camera dei Papiri, Vatican Libarary -- Figure 7 - Screenshot from the Digital Monument to the Jewish Community