Internet browsers compatible with this site

This site works best using Netscape 4.7 and above, and Internet Explorer 5.0 and above. To download a more recent version of one of these browsers, visit Netscape or Microsoft Internet Explorer.

In addition, the site requires that javascript be enabled. To change your browser settings, please follow these steps:

PC/Windows - Internet Explorer:

• From the Tools menu, select Internet Options
• Click the Security tab
• Click the Custom Level button
• Under Run ActiveX controls and plugins, make sure that Enabled is checked

PC/Windows - Netscape:

• From the Edit menu, select Preferences
• Click Advanced
• Check Enable Javascript
• Click OK

Macintosh - Internet Explorer:

• From the Edit menu, select Preferences
• Click on Web Browser, and select Java
• Check Enable Java

Macintosh - Netscape:

• From the Edit menu, select Preferences
• Click Advanced
• Check Enable Javascript
• Click OK

Computer configuration to best view this site

This site is designed to look best when your computer screen resolution is set to 800x600 pixels or above, and with Colors set to “True Color” (32 bit). To check or change your screen resolution, please follow these steps:

PC/Windows:

• From the Start menu, select “Settings”
• Click Control Panel
• Then, click Display
• Within Display, select the Settings tab
• Adjust the Colors and Screen area settings, and click OK.

Macintosh:

• Under the Apple Menu, open the Control Panels folder
• Launch the Monitors Control Panel
• Set the Color Depth to Thousands, or Millions (if available)
• Set the Resolution to 1024x768 or higher (if supported)

Special plug-ins to experience the site

The Macromedia Flash Player 6 is required to view ARTscape. To download the Flash Player 6, please visit Macromedia.

Adobe Acrobat Reader is required to print all PDF forms. To download Acrobat Reader, please visit Adobe Downloads.

Printing pages of this site

Pages of this site can be printed using your browser Print button. Within the browser, go to File and select Page Setup. Pages will print best if you change the Page Setup to landscape. Then, click Print.

What is ARTscape?

ARTscape is a powerful new intellectual tool that uses PEM’s objects as a launching point for a user’s self-guided journey through art and culture. Data in ARTscape includes photos and descriptions of objects in PEM’s collection, definitions, book excerpts, quotations, video clips, and audio clips.

Visitors interact with an intelligent, fluid, and customizable interface that suggests relationships between objects and ideas. An extensive keywording system applied to all content incorporates both concrete and abstract criteria, applying a “fuzzy logic” approach to suggesting connections between concepts.

Rather than generating a limited set of search results such as those typically made through static, linked databases, ARTscape becomes a unique entity in the hands of each individual user, revealing infinite pathways to unpredictable destinations.

ARTscape performance tips
ARTscape is a robust tool that may challenge the performance of some computers. The following tips may help increase responsiveness, movie playback speeds, and animation smoothness:

The Macromedia Flash Player 6 is required to view ARTscape. To download the Flash Player, please visit Macromedia.

You should minimize the number of applications running and the number of browser windows open while ARTscape is active. If the computer is busy running another application or displaying the contents of a different Web site, this can undermine performance of ARTscape.

Macintosh users may benefit from allocating more memory to their browser:

• Locate the browser application file on the hard disk.
• Click once on the application icon to highlight it.
• From the File menu choose Get InfoMemory.
• Under Memory Requirements change the Preferred size to at least 48000k.