In the past few years the Municipal Archaeological Museum of Bologna in collaboration with the Planning Department of the City of Bologna has paid great attention to the use of new computer science technologies in the framework of the different activities which are carried out: management, information, education, cataloguing, restorations, scientific research, publishing, etc. Indeed, it believes that these instruments are not simply useful but absolutely necessary to enhance the museum's cultural function. Recent initiatives - the opening to the public of the computer section and the production of a CD-ROM - contains an in-depth summary of the different projects which have been completed or which are still under way - confirm the museum's staff willingness to involve and interest visitors, students and scholars to carry out educational and scientific activities by proposing new learning paths and visits to the archaeological collections using the computer.