Resumo:
With the advent of word wide web from the 1990s, much of what existed only in the
physical world began to exist in the virtual world as well. An example is the museums
that, though traditionally remembered as conservation institutions for historical objects
or construction of art, also hold other types of collections. In this work the entomological
museum is approached, which consists of a collection of insects organized mainly for study
purposes. The objective was built a virtual entomological museum in which the species
can be viewed in 360 degrees. The motivation of the work was the fact that existing virtual
museums present only two-dimensional insect photographs, which limits the visualization
of the species. With the use of scripts that manipulate photographs, and developed a
web application in which insects can be rotated 360 degrees for observation. The method
showed up simple and low cost, being feasible for this type of application.
