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| Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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| File:20170420 Beinecke Rare Book Library Interior Yale University New Haven Connecticut.jpg | [[Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library]], [[Yale]] |
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| File:RedDotDesignMuseum 3393b.jpg | Triangular prism-shaped display cases in the [[Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex|Red Dot Design Museum]], [[Essen]] |
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| File:Altena - Burg in 09 ies.jpg | Display cases in [[Altena]] Castle |
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| File:Branderszaal-4.jpg | Old Dutch display case in Branderszaal Lange Haven 97, [[Schiedam]] |
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| File:Chambre de la Reine du Petit Trianon 004.jpg | The queen's chamber of the [[Petit Trianon]], [[Palace of Versailles|Versailles]], the former residence of [[Marie Antoinette]] |
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| File:Chateau Versailles Galerie des Glaces.jpg | The ''[[Hall of Mirrors|Galerie des Glaces]]'' of the [[Palace of Versailles]] |
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| File:Cuckooland Museum clocks by Kirsty Davies.jpg | Antique cuckoo clocks displayed at [[Cuckooland Museum]], [[Tabley Inferior|Tabley]], an example of a specialised museum |
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| File:Indonesia Museum Traditional Dress 01.jpg | Exhibit in [[Indonesia Museum]], [[Jakarta]], displaying the traditional costumes of [[Ethnic groups in Indonesia|Indonesian ethnic groups]] |
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| File:Iron bed in Tuol Sleng prison.JPG | Iron bed in [[torture]] room at [[Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum]], [[Phnom Penh]] |
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| File:Berlin Naturkundemuseum Korallen.jpg | An early 18th-century German ''Schrank'' with a traditional display of [[coral]]s, from the [[Natural History Museum, Berlin|Naturkundemuseum]], Berlin |
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| File:Giraffatitan brancai Naturkundemuseum Berlin.jpg | The Dinosaur Hall of the [[Naturkundemuseum]], Berlin, showing the skeleton of ''[[Giraffatitan|Giraffatitan brancai]]'', among the largest mounted skeletons in the world |
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| File:Air and Space Museum South Hall.jpg | The South Hall of the [[Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center]], [[Chantilly, Virginia]], an aerospace museum, showing the ''[[Enola Gay]]'' bomber and other aeroplanes |
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| File:Eingangshalle TMW.jpg | Entrance hall of the [[Vienna Technical Museum]], one of the largest [[technology museum]]s in Europe |
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| File:Glasgow Kelvingrovegal.jpg | ''Floating Heads'' by Sophie Cave (2006), installed in the East Court of the [[Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum]], Glasgow |
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| File:Industrial Gallery BMAG UK.jpg | The Industrial Gallery, housed in the original part of the [[Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery]], designed by [[Yeoville Thomason]] and opened in 1885 |
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| File:Interior of Pitt Rivers Museum 2015.JPG | [[Pitt Rivers Museum]], Oxford, an [[Archaeology museum|archaeology]] and [[anthropology]] museum |
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| File:Bibliotheque-musee-Guimet.jpg | Panoramic view of the library of the [[Guimet Museum]], Paris, an [[art museum]] specialising in [[Asian art]] |
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| File:Museum of vodka.jpg | A museum in Verkhniye Mandrogi, [[Leningrad Oblast]], specialising in [[vodka]] |
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| File:15 23 0224 USHMM.jpg | The Tower of Faces at the [[United States Holocaust Memorial Museum]], Washington, D.C. |
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| File:National Gallery of Victoria Great Hall 2017.jpg | The Great Hall of the [[National Gallery of Victoria]], Australia, has the world's largest [[stained-glass]] ceiling, designed by [[Leonard French]]. |
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| File:Storage Gallery.jpg | Storage gallery of the [[Larco Museum]], [[Lima]], Peru, a museum of [[pre-Columbian]] art |
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| File:ساحة المتحف المصري.jpg | The [[Egyptian Museum]], [[Cairo]], showing some of its collection of [[ancient Egypt]]ian antiquities |
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| File:Louvre Museum Wikimedia Commons.jpg | The [[Louvre]], Paris, showing the glass-and-metal [[Louvre Pyramid|Pyramid]], designed by [[I. M. Pei]] to act as the museum's main entrance, and completed in 1989 |
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| File:Uffizi Gallery, Florence.jpg | The [[Palazzo Vecchio]] [[Uffizi|Uffizi Gallery]], [[Florence]], the most-visited museum in Italy |
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| File:British Museum from NE 2.JPG | The [[British Museum]], London |
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| File:State Historical Museum, Moscow, Russia.jpg | The [[State Historical Museum]], Moscow |
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| File:Bode_Museum.jpg | The [[Museum Island]], Berlin |
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| File:Museo marítimo Ósvör, Bolungarvík, Vestfirðir, Islandia, 2014-08-15, DD 066.JPG | A maritime museum located in the village of [[Bolungarvík]], Vestfirðir, Iceland, showing a 19th-century fishing base with a typical boat of the period and associated industrial buildings: an example of a very small museum |
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| File:Museo_del_Prado_(Madrid)_04.jpg | The [[Prado|Museo del Prado]], Madrid, established in 1785 |
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| File:Das Ambraser Unterschloss.jpg | The Lower Castle of [[Ambras Castle]], [[Innsbruck]], one of the earliest buildings constructed specifically for use as a museum; it remains a museum displaying its original collections |
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| File:Museum Nasional Courtyard.jpg | The Peristylia hall in [[National Museum of Indonesia]], [[Jakarta]], the largest museum in Indonesia and one of that country's oldest |
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| File:La cour intérieure du musée national (Phnom Penh) (6998203541).jpg | The [[National Museum of Cambodia|Cambodian National Museum]], [[Phnom Penh]], showing its vernacular architectural style |
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| File:PolandSzczecinPanorama.JPG | [[National Museum, Szczecin|National Museum]], [[Szczecin]], Poland |
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| File:MASP Brazil.jpg | [[São Paulo Museum of Art]], [[São Paulo]], a 1968 concrete-and-glass structure designed by [[Lina Bo Bardi]], considered a landmark of the city and a major example of modern Brazilian architecture |
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| File:Weichert-Villaronga.jpg | [[Museo de la Arquitectura Ponceña]], an [[architecture museum]] in [[Ponce, Puerto Rico|Ponce]], [[Puerto Rico]], that focuses on the [[Ponce Creole]] architectural style |
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| File:Museum Indonesia Main Building.jpg | [[Indonesia Museum]], in [[Taman Mini Indonesia Indah]], an ethnology museum exemplifying [[Balinese architecture]] |
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| File:Getty Center patio.jpg | Exhibitions Pavilion and Rotunda of the [[Getty Center]], Los Angeles, an [[art museum]] |
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| File:Museumsinsel München.jpg | The [[Deutsches Museum]], Munich, one of the world's largest [[science museum|science]] and [[technology museum]]s |
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| File:Courtyard of the museum, 2014-12-05.jpg | Small cloister of the charterhouse of [[Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri]], built on the site of the [[Baths of Diocletian]]; part of the [[National Roman Museum]] of Rome |
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| File:Brama Arbeit Macht frei.jpg | Entrance to [[Auschwitz|Auschwitz I]], part of the [[Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum]], a [[Holocaust]] museum on the site of the former [[Nazi concentration camps]] |
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| File:Yad Vashem View.jpg | Aerial view of [[Yad Vashem]], Jerusalem, Israel's [[Holocaust]] memorial; the museum, designed by [[Moshe Safdie]], opened in 2005 and tells the personal stories of ninety Holocaust victims and survivors |
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| File:Air space exhibits 01.jpg | Now closed, the [[California Science Center|California Aerospace Museum]], designed by [[Frank Gehry]], formerly displayed a [[Lockheed F-104 Starfighter]] |
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| File:National Palace Museum Front View.jpg | [[Paifang]] or arched entrance of the Northern Branch of the [[National Palace Museum]], Taiwan, whose collection covers 8,000 years of the history of [[Chinese art]] |
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| File:National Art Center Tokyo 2008.jpg | The [[The National Art Center, Tokyo|National Art Center]], Tokyo, designed by [[Kisho Kurokawa]], is an "empty museum", lacking its own collection, which hosts temporary exhibitions from other organisations. |
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| File:Shanghai Museum exterior 5.jpg | [[Shanghai Museum]], a museum of ancient [[Chinese art]], was rebuilt in 1996 to a design inspired by the ''[[ding (vessel)|ding]]'', an ancient bronze cooking vessel. |
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| File:National Gallery at dusk, Canberra ACT.jpg | The [[National Gallery of Australia]], [[Canberra]] |
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| File:Figueres 28.jpg | The [[Dalí Theatre and Museum]], commemorating [[Salvador Dalí]] in his home town of [[Figueres]], [[Catalonia]], has a geodesic dome and is decorated with giant eggs. |
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| File:Matenadaran, Ereván, Armenia, 2016-10-03, DD 22.jpg | The [[Matenadaran]], [[Yerevan]], Armenia, has an extensive collection of [[Armenian language|Armenian]] manuscripts. |
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| File:Bellas Artes 01.jpg | The [[Palacio de Bellas Artes]], [[Mexico City]], has a permanent collection of murals and hosts an [[architecture museum]]. |
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| File:Bilbao - Guggenheim aurore.jpg | The [[Guggenheim Museum Bilbao]], Spain, a modern [[art museum]] designed by [[Frank Gehry]] and completed in 1997 |
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Latest revision as of 06:03, 21 September 2021
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...)
The Icelandic Phallological Museum (Icelandic: Hið íslenzka reðasafn [ˈhɪːð ˈistlɛnska ˈrɛːðaˌsapn̥]), located in Reykjavík, Iceland, houses the world's largest display of penises and penile parts. As of early 2020 the museum moved to a new location in Hafnartorg, three times the size of the previous one, and the collection holds well over 300 penises from more than 100 species of mammal. The museum also holds 22 penises from creatures and peoples of Icelandic folklore.
In July 2011, the museum obtained its first human penis, one of many promised by would-be donors. Its detachment from the donor's body did not go according to plan and it was reduced to a greyish-brown shriveled mass that was pickled in a jar of formalin. The museum continues to search for "a younger and a bigger and better one."
Founded in 1997 by since-then retired teacher Sigurður Hjartarson and now run by his son Hjörtur Gísli Sigurðsson, the museum grew out of an interest in penises that began during Sigurður's childhood when he was given a cattle whip made from a bull's penis. He obtained the organs of Icelandic animals from sources around the country, with acquisitions ranging from the 170 cm (67 in) front tip of a blue whale penis to the 2 mm (0.08 in) baculum of a hamster, which can only be seen with a magnifying glass. The museum claims that its collection includes the penises of elves and trolls, though, as Icelandic folklore portrays such creatures as being invisible, they cannot be seen. The collection also features phallic art and crafts such as lampshades made from the scrotums of bulls.
The museum has become a popular tourist attraction with thousands of visitors a year and has received international media attention, including a Canadian documentary film called The Final Member, which covers the museum's quest to obtain a human penis. According to its mission statement, the museum aims to enable "individuals to undertake serious study into the field of phallology in an organized, scientific fashion." (Full article...)
A conservator-restorer is a professional responsible for the preservation of artistic and cultural artifacts, also known as cultural heritage. Conservators possess the expertise to preserve cultural heritage in a way that retains the integrity of the object, building or site, including its historical significance, context and aesthetic or visual aspects. This kind of preservation is done by analyzing and assessing the condition of cultural property, understanding processes and evidence of deterioration, planning collections care or site management strategies that prevent damage, carrying out conservation treatments, and conducting research. A conservator's job is to ensure that the objects in a museum's collection are kept in the best possible condition, as well as to serve the museum's mission to bring art before the public. (Full article...)
- ... that after one of Piet Mondrian's paintings (shown) was discovered to have been hanging upside down for decades, the museum left it as is?
- ... that museum director Alena Aladava rebuilt the Belarusian national art collection in the aftermath of the Second World War?
- ... that two railroad boxcars were needed to ship William W. Jefferis's vast mineral collection to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History?
- ... that despite plans to restore the Sam H. Harris Theatre in the 1990s, it became an entrance to a wax museum?
- ... that the Seabury Tredwell House, now a museum, is Manhattan's only remaining 19th-century house with its original furnishings?
- ... that the Jersey Maritime Museum displays a 7.5-million-stitch tapestry depicting life under Nazi occupation that was worked on by thousands of islanders?
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A maritime museum (sometimes nautical museum) is a museum specializing in the display of objects relating to ships and travel on large bodies of water. A subcategory of maritime museums are naval museums, which focus on navies and the military use of the sea.
The great prize of a maritime museum is a historic ship (or a replica) made accessible as a museum ship, but as these are large and require a considerable budget to maintain, many museums preserve smaller or more fragile ships or partial ships within the museum buildings. Most museums exhibit interesting pieces of ships (such as a figurehead or cannon), ship models, and miscellaneous small items associated with ships and shipping, like cutlery, uniforms, and so forth. (Full article...)
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