As the 21st century requires the radical and wholistic paradigm shift in terrns of curriculurn, pedagogy, and learning theories in every academic field, so the art education has come to the terrns with ‘ visual culture art education(VCAE)’ as a new approach, which represents postmodern theorizing, encompassing both popular and fine arts, emphasizing visual literacy to the ‘empowered’ learner for the critical interpretation and criticism on the meaning of images in terrns of their own cultural predispositions. This study, after analyzing and connecting VCAE with constructivist principles of instruction which are also regarded as embodying the postmodern educational approaches and values in education, analyzed the educational potentials of virtual museums(or galleries) for the purpose of seeking for the theoreticaI Iink with VCAE. For that purpose, several internationally reputed virtual galleries were examined within three representative features of digital archive, personalization, and online community in the virtual museum. Finally this paper pinponted the interconnected relationships of how the educational values of the virtual museum can be applied for the practice and theory of VCAE.