Draft:Outline of museums
Institution that exhibits items of cultural significance
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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to museums:
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 museums in the world attracting millions of visitors annually.
What type of thing are museums?
Museums can be described as all of the following:
- Type of building –
- Educational institution –
- Heritage organization –
Types of museums
- Archaeology museum
- Art museum
- Artillery museum
- Automotive museum
- Aviation museum
- Biographical museum
- Botanical garden
- Ceramics museum
- Children's museum
- Community museum
- Computer museum
- Creationist museum
- Diocesan museum
- Design museum
- Ethnographic Museum
- Farm museum
History of museums
Museum Operations
Museum Architecture
Museum Technology
Museum Ethics and Controversies
Museum Visitor Experience
Museum Organizations
Persons influential in museums
See also
References
External links
Definitions from Wiktionary
Media from Commons
News from Wikinews
Quotations from Wikiquote
Texts from Wikisource
Textbooks from Wikibooks
Resources from Wikiversity
- International Council of Museums
- Museums of the World Archived 4 November 2021 at the Wayback Machine
- VLmp directory of museums