Benefits Here are some of the benefits we believe we can offer our visitors and academic participants through The Plethoreum's virtual museum: Provide a venue for innovative educational opportunities for our undergraduate and graduate students, as well as for scholars outside the University of Dayton. Conduct information technology research resulting in ideas, processes, systems, applications, algorithms, and software components that can be deployed in new ways for new disciplines. Bring obscure and remote collections directly into homes, schools, community centers, senior citizen centers, churches, offices, and libraries. Showcase interesting and significant private collections in a low-cost, low-risk forum to an international audience. Permanently display large collections and many exhibits because a virtual museum is not constrained by physical space. Maximize accessibility; virtual museums are not constrained by economic, geographic, and time barriers. Draw attention to obscure subjects resulting in increased interest in traditional museums. Assume the role of a digital archive and preserve valuable historical artifacts.