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=== Types of museums ===
=== Lists ===
* [[List of museums|Museums]]
* [[List of most visited museums|Most visited museums]] ([[List of most visited museums by region|by region]])
* Art museums: [[List of most visited art museums|most visited]], [[List of largest art museums|largest]]
* [[List of transport museums|Transport museums]]

=== Types ===


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* [[List of national museums]]
* [[Natural history museum]]
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* [[Transport museum]]
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* [[University museum]]
* [[University museum]]
* [[Virtual museum]]
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Revision as of 01:09, 8 May 2019

Introduction

A museum is an institution dedicated to displaying and/or preserving culturally or scientifically significant objects. Many museums have exhibitions of these objects on public display, and some have private collections that are used by researchers and specialists. Museums host a much wider range of objects than a library, and usually focus on a specific theme, such as the arts, science, natural history or local history. Public museums that host exhibitions and interactive demonstrations are often tourist attractions, and many attract large numbers of visitors from outside their host country, with the most visited museums in the world attracting millions of visitors annually.

Since the establishment of the earliest known museum in ancient times, museums have been associated with academia and the preservation of rare items. Museums originated as private collections of interesting items, and not until much later did the emphasis on educating the public take root. (Full article...)

Selected museum
Entrance to the Croatian Natural History Museum

The Croatian Natural History Museum (Croatian: Hrvatski prirodoslovni muzej) is the oldest and biggest natural history museum and the main body for natural history research, preservation and collection in Croatia. Located on Dimitrije Demeter Street in Gornji Grad, one of the oldest neighbourhoods of the Croatian capital Zagreb, it owns one of the biggest museum collections in Croatia, with over 2 million artefacts, including over 1.1 million animal specimens. It was founded in 1846 as the "National Museum". The National Museum was later split up into five museums, three of which were in 1986 merged as departments of the newly named Croatian Natural History Museum. The museum contains a large scientific library open to the public, and publishes the first Croatian natural history scientific journal, Natura Croatica.

The permanent display of the Croatian Natural History Museum consists of mineralogical, petrographical and zoological collections, as well as two permanent exhibits in the atrium: the Rock Map of Croatia and the Geological Pole. It is home to the remains of the Neanderthal from Krapina. As of 2021, the museum is closed pending the completion of reconstruction following the 2020 Zagreb earthquake. (Full article...)

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Technisches Museum Wien, entrance hall.

A technology museum is a museum devoted to applied science and technological developments. Many museums are both a science museum and a technology museum.

Some of the most historically significant technology museums are: (Full article...)

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