Would you like to experience the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art without going to SF? Try SFMOMA's ARTscope. This site is a great example of an innovative approach to bringing a museum's collection to the Web. ArtScope is a visual browsing tool with a thumbnail grid displaying over 6,000 works from the SFMOMA's permanent collection. All works appear on the grid. You move the lens over this grid to magnify certain areas, allowing you to view hundreds of works of art simultaneously or just one at a time in close detail. ArtScope also provides a search tool and information about the artwork at the center of the lens. If any results match your search phrase, ArtScope moves the lens to the first match. If more than one result exists for your term, a navigation bar displays the number of the result you are currently viewing, the total number of results, and arrow buttons that enable you to jump to the other matches within the grid. It's fun typing in a term like "cat litter" or "kinetic," and then flying around the grid to view all the results in their scattered locations.
