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Museums are institutions (not buildings!) that keep and use objects (of nature, science, art and history and other memorabilia) for research and presentation. The museum building acts as interface between the public and the holdings of the museum.
The first museum was the museum of Alexandria, a center of learning like the Academy or Lyceum, it wasn't until the Renaissance that museums displayed objects and such, maybe this should be included
One temple of Muses (aka Mouseion) was also in the Athenian suburb Akademeia (Hekademeia), where Platon's Academy was situated. This could also be included. --Oop 02:15, Nov 5, 2004 (UTC)
I made some changes to the article. I also removed some parts from the lengthy introduction. If anyone opposes the changes I made, feel free to revert it back. I've also added a todo at the top. Gflores Talk 00:02, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
Hello! I am a writer for the Smithsonian's Center for Education and Museum Studies. Our office offers a site for teachers titled "Creating a Classroom Museum." It is found at this address:
http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/educators/lesson_plans/collect/crecla/crecla0a.htm
If you think the audience would find this valuable, I wish to invite you to include it as an external link. We would be most grateful.
Thank you so much for your attention.
Wikipedia appears to have no list of largest museums (as judged by any criteria). Would love to see such an article. Wonder where the sources are to make such a list. Would they be listed by budget, floor area, attendance? Can someone help?
Would the plural be musea? Thanks.14:18, 14 December 2006 (UTC) Cameron Nedland
Very rarely - museums is best Johnbod 14:35, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
VATICAN MUSEUMS!!!
As a museum and heritage worker in providing learning I belong to various networks that share knowledge, thereby not re-inventing the wheel. I am not saying that this needs to be a result of this 'link' but I have created a user box for professional in the museum - heritage field. It will add a category to the page. User:Edmund Patrick/Userboxes/Museum will take you there. --Edmund Patrick 08:35, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
I was going to change it to the latter, but thought I should maybe post on here first. Artefact seems to be more common in Britain, whereas artifact is more frequently used in America. The word comes from the latin arte so I think artefact would probably be best. 03x072 19:01, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
The external links section is getting a bit big and flirting with violation of WP:NOT#LINK. Given that this is a general article on museums, the links to museums in specific countries or on specific topics dont seem appropriate here. Any issue with moving these to more specific articles?--Rtphokie (talk) 14:12, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
I need to do a project proposal about museum,but i don't know which direction should i go with, i need your help. Thanks a lot! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.31.51.6 (talk) 02:33, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
I have been going through and adding references whee I can - but there are a lot of claims which need to be supported by WP:RS I have marked these with citation needed. There is also a lot of duplication between the art histories and History sections - with at least 6 separate claims to be the first museum! Some sections are very short (eg maritime museums, mobile museums) & other areas include examples which have obviously been added by those with a particular interest in a local museum but perhaps better examples could be found. I will try to work on some of these issues but any help appreciated.— Rod talk 20:54, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
We have three categories which seem to overlap: Category:Museologists, Category:Museum people, Category:Museum occupations. They should probably be merged.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 18:05, 16 June 2008 (UTC)