Portal:Museums
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 the Huanaki Cultural Centre & Museum was destroyed by a cyclone?
- ... that two railroad boxcars were needed to ship William W. Jefferis's vast mineral collection to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History?
- ... that the World War I memorial in Pierson, Iowa, was rededicated in 2018 by the Pritzker Military Museum & Library?
- ... that a vampire killing kit was donated to the Mercer Museum in the 1980s?
- ... that Lamia Al-Gailani Werr helped rebuild the Iraq Museum after it was looted in the 2003 American-led invasion of Iraq?
- ... that the Seabury Tredwell House, now a museum, is Manhattan's only remaining 19th-century house with its original furnishings?
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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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