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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...)
- ... that Ashton Hawkins arranged for the construction of the West Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, to house the Temple of Dendur?
- ... that Peckham Rock, a fake cave painting surreptitiously installed in the British Museum by Banksy, is actually concrete from Hackney?
- ... that the Lemmon Petrified Wood Park & Museum contains 3,200 tons of petrified wood?
- ... that the site of the headquarters of the German colonization of Texas was converted into a museum?
- ... that Hasanpaşa Gasworks escaped its demolition through the resistance of local residents, became a festival venue for a time and was finally transformed into a museum after redevelopment?
- ... that a vampire killing kit was donated to the Mercer Museum in the 1980s?
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Types of museums
- Artillery museum
- Aviation museum
- TU 142 Aircraft Museum
- Cabinet of curiosities
- Ceramics museum
- Children's museum
- Collection (artwork)
- Community museum
- Computer museum
- Design museum
- Dime museum
- Ecomuseum
- Economuseum
- Ethnographic village
- Farm museum
- Fashion museum
- Folk museum
- Food museum
- Geology museum
- Green museum
- Hair museum
- Hall of Memory
- Heritage centre
- Illuminare – Centre for the Study of Medieval Art
- Imaginarium
- Interpretation centre
- Jewish museum
- Lapidarium
- Lighthouse museum
- Living museum
- Local museum
- Maritime museum
- Migration museum
- Mobile museum
- Musaeum
- National History Museum
- List of national museums
- Natural history museum
- Open-air museum
- Palace museum
- Postal museum
- Prefectural museum
- Private museum
- Public museum
- Regimental museum
- Rural history museum
- Schatzkammer
- Science fiction libraries and museums
- Science museum
- List of sex museums
- Museum ship
- Technology museum
- Textile museum
- Torture museum
- Toy museum
- List of transport museums
- Transport museum
- University museum
- Virtual museum
- Wax museum
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