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- The first museum is often identified as a private collection in the sixteenth century that belonged to the Medici family, a political dynasty and later a royal house founded on banking wealth and patronage.
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Apr 1, 2018 · Looking at ancient collections and the age-old cabinet of curiosities, we can understand its origins, explore the museum's evolution and trace how its role has changed over time. We have remarkable architecture housing art nowadays, but do ever wonder what was deemed a “museum” centuries ago?
- From The Cabinet of Curiosities to Modern Sites
Also known as “wonder rooms,” these one-of-a-kind spaces...
- From The Cabinet of Curiosities to Modern Sites
- Classical Antiquity
- Mouseion of Alexandria
- Museums in Ancient Rome
- The Cabinet of Curiosities
- Museums and Nationalism
- After The 20th Century
The English word ‘museum’ has its origins in ancient Greece. The Greek word (Μουσεῖον)referred to sites devoted to the cult of the nine Muses (patron deities of the arts). With time, the word came to describe a place devoted to the study of art and finally gained its current meaning. In Classical antiquity, art was displayed everywhere; from public...
A direct successor to Lyceum’s mouseion was the Mouseion of Alexandria.Ptolemy Soterfounded it as a research institute around 280 BCE. Like the Lyceum, it was a community of scholars both academic and religious, organized around a shrine to the Muses. An organic part of the mouseion was the library of Alexandria, mostly known for its enormous colle...
The expansionism that turned Rome from a city-state into a vast empirebrought a great influx of art. Looted statues and paintings from every corner of the empire found their place as decoration in Roman public architecture. The Greek sculptures, now found everywhere in the city of Rome, created an unprecedented effect. In the words of art-historian...
The age of the explorers and the opening of the new world to Europeans broadened the scope of collections. Collectors – mainly amateurs and scholars – stored their acquisitions in cabinets, drawers, cases, and others. As time passed, every new collection was more systematic and ordered than the previous one. These collections became known under dif...
It is no coincidence that the modern museum appears at the same time with imperialism and nationalism. The national museum had the power to convert the treasures and luxuries of the monarchy into the treasured heritage of the nation. After The Louvre, every nation aspiring to be respected sought to represent itself through a national museum. Thus, ...
Throughout the 20thcentury, museums became more and more diverse. Science museums, natural history museums, art museums, and history museums were established as different museum types and then they were divided into further subcategories. Museums began abandoning traditional forms of exhibiting art and went after the ‘modern.’ This modern ideal fou...
Sir Hans Sloane (1660–1753), physician and President of the Royal Society, amassed a huge collection of more than 80,000 'natural and artificial rarities' with a vast library of over 40,000 books and manuscripts, and 32,000 coins and medals.
The 18th century saw the opening of great museums such as the British Museum, Louvre, and Uffizi Gallery. By the early 19th century the granting of public access to formerly private collections had become common. What followed for the next 100 years was the worldwide founding of museums intended for the public.
The British Museum was founded in 1753 and opened its doors in 1759. It was the first national museum to cover all fields of human knowledge, open to visitors from across the world.
Joseph Breck (1885–1933), a curator of decorative arts and assistant director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and James J. Rorimer (1905–1966), who would later be named the Museum's director, were primarily responsible for overseeing the building's design and construction.
May 18, 2016 · Eilean Hooper- Greenhill, in her study of museums and the different epistemological systems that produced them, draws on Michel Foucault’s three major periodizing epistemes — the Renaissance,...
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