For other uses, see Museum (disambiguation)."Historical museum" redirects here. For specific museums, see Historical Museum (disambiguation).
Museum
The Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino in Santiago, Chile
The Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Egypt
The Canada Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa, Canada
The Hong Kong Museum of Art in Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong
The House of Slaves in Gorée, Senegal
Diorama at the Indian Museum in Kolkata, India
Gallery at the Sukiennice Museum in Kraków, Poland
A museum (/mjuːˈziːəm/mew-ZEE-əm) is an institution dedicated to displaying and/or preserving culturally significant objects. Many museums have exhibitions of these objects on public display, and some have private collections that are used by researchers and specialists. Compared to a library, a museum hosts a much wider range of objects and usually focus around a specific theme such as the arts, science, natural history, local history, and other topics. Public museums that host exhibitions and interactive demonstrations are often considered to be tourist attractions, and many museums attract large numbers of visitors from outside their host country, with the most visited museums in the world regularly 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.
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