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 FBI set up temporary offices in a museum on an aircraft carrier while investigating the 9/11 terrorist attacks?
- ... 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 the International Vinegar Museum houses more than 350 types of vinegar from around the world?
- ... that the New Zealand stonefly Stenoperla prasina was the five millionth specimen digitised by the Natural History Museum in London?
- ... that squatters in Hamburg briefly occupied the former Erotic Art Museum?
- ... that despite plans to restore the Sam H. Harris Theatre in the 1990s, it became an entrance to a wax museum?
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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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