Our presentation introduces a real-life project where large collection of artworks and relevant knowledge were published in internet using topic maps. Project employed topic map based knowledge aggregation, editing and publishing application Wandora developed in Grip Studios Interactive, Inc. Project’s goal was to realize attractive and well-designed WWW service promoting art collections of Finnish National Gallery.

Finnish National Gallery is the largest art museum institution in Finland. Art collections of Finnish National Gallery contains over 30 000 artworks. Presentation describes the path to topic map based WWW service and reviews experiences, including problems and success factors faced during the project. We also explain motivation behind some Wandora features such as layered topic maps.