The Maine Art Museum Trail is the companion site to a cultural tourism itinerary developed by the Maine Arts Commission. Web technology provides a significant tool for rural states like Maine to provide access to its cultural resources. This site is also an example of how the Web makes it possible to bundle these resources and market them to one of fastest-growing market segments, cultural travelers, who spent more than $6 billion in New England in 1998. This virtual companion to the Maine Art Museum Trail is intended to be more tour guide than an in-depth look at the collections of each of the museums. It provides visitors and residents with an overview of the collections, images of selected works, information and a link to the museum's Web site.