Starting from 1996, Taiwan has initiated a multi-year digital museum project to digitally archive precious cultural collections. The National Chi Nan University (NCNU) has actively participated to the project and has successfully constructed the "Butterfly Digital Museum", the "Lanyu Digital Museum" and the "Ali-Mountain Digital Museum". Over the years, the "Language and Dialog" Project LORIA / INRIA Lorraine) has devoted much e ort on SILFIDE and ELAN projects. SILFIDE and ELAN are both distributed language resources systems, o ering access to existing linguistic resources to their potential users throughout Europe. The purpose of the "Digital Museum" project is to incorporate the NCNU and INRIA research e ort for developing a Web Services-based distributed hypermedia digital museum content management framework. Design issues of the framework and prototype system implementation will be addressed in this paper.