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museum

Also known as museum-style institution, museal institution

A museum is an institution dedicated to displaying and preserving culturally or scientifically significant objects. Many museums have exhibitions of these objects on public display, and some have non-exhibited collections that are used by researchers and specialists. Museums hold a wide range of objects and often focus on a particular theme, such as the arts, science, natural history, or local history. Museums that host exhibitions and interactive demonstrations are often tourist attractions, and many draw large numbers of visitors from outside of their host country, with the most visited muse

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A museum is an institution that collects, preserves, and displays objects of cultural or scientific importance, often organizing them around themes like art, science, or history. Museums matter because they make these significant objects accessible to the public through exhibitions, serve as resources for researchers, and function as educational and tourist destinations that help people understand and appreciate human heritage and the natural world.

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Research

72,913 papers

A Survey of Museum Applied Research Based on Mobile Augmented Reality.ReviewComputational intelligence and neuroscience · 2022Wang C, Zhu YDOI: 10.1155/2022/2926241
Pedro Ara anatomic museum.ReviewNeurological research · 2006Montenegro VA, Trefilio DE, Borghino VN et al.DOI: 10.1179/016164106X97973
Calamities causing loss of museum collections: a historical and global perspective on museum disasters.ReviewZootaxa · 2023Tyler MJ, Fucsko LA, Roberts JDDOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5230.2.2
A conceptual model of the impact of including carers in museum programmes for people with dementia.ReviewDementia (London, England) · 2022Kinsey D, Orr N, Anderson R et al.DOI: 10.1177/14713012221126803
Recovering the genomes hidden in museum wet collections.Molecular ecology resources · 2022Ruiz-Gartzia I, Lizano E, Marques-Bonet T et al.DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.13631
A moulage museum is not just a museum : Wax models as teaching instruments.ReviewVirchows Archiv : an international journal of pathology · 2010Cooke RADOI: 10.1007/s00428-010-0983-8
Urology on Display: Museum, Library and Archives of the DGU Duesseldorf-Berlin.ReviewUrologia internationalis · 2020Moll FH, Moll-Keyn JMDOI: 10.1159/000501109
Artificial intelligence empowering museum space layout design: Insights from China.PloS one · 2024Tang Q, Zheng L, Chen Y et al.DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0310594

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OpenStreetMap tag: tourism=museum
Commons category: Museums
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Commons gallery: Museum
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Contents

Etymology
Purpose
Changing purpose over time
Definitions
History
Ancient
Early
Modern
Management
Protection
Gallery–museum storage
Planning
Financial uses
Funding
Exhibition design
Types
Major types
Legal framework
Public vs. private ownership
Non-profit vs. for-profit
Management by trusts vs. corporations
Current challenges
Decolonization
Repatriation of human remains
Labor issues and unionization
Union actions
Sustainability and climate change
Digital culture
See also
References
Further reading
External links

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.