Museum – Museum is not enough?

Is the beginning of the Museum of online museums, which will have for all online museum on the planet in the near future. But what about those who went down in history, or have changed over time and that something new?

And generally, that the museum? Gathering JV Noble in 1970, five main objectives of museums for the preservation, study, interpretation and display. Recently, Peter Mench analyzed and distilled the basic functions of up to three museums: the preservation, collection and communicate.

Museums have changed so much of his time. This is a controversial issue of when and where the first public museum, but when Sir Hans Sloane left his collection to the British people, so that it can

for the use and benefit of the public body that may have free access to browse, read and store the same

Thought to be the first in the world. As a result of this generous gesture, the British Museum was founded in 1753 and the state agency in 1759. (Cited by Rankine, 1987)

Although the Publick (SiC) have been beneficiaries of this was not a license, as it seems. If you go through a folder of wire-rimmed time, the class gap was the gap. Only those who could read and had the opportunity to visit, if a written request to be sent.

It was the Industrial Revolution in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century, who created the museum as we know it. Wealthy factory owner, who has developed some social workers have seen their bad conscience were often sick (not) (and do not work) and probably in bad habits.

Owen, salt, Cadbury, Rowntree and the lever as examples of manufacturers with charity events with a desire to improve the working class and

wean them from the temptations of raw liquor and lust to create a model village for people with low self-study requirements, sports and gardening help to sublimate

Part of that improvement and learning, memory, history, to see where employees could learn how to create and about the incredible treasures of the stranger returned.

Since then, changed our information. Internet and TV, our curiosities and museums are places that tell about how things have changed with a pot of Roman Twentieth Century bowl. With digital information at all times and how outdated the current collection? The role of museums is to preserve the company’s collective memory, rather than primary education. And yet, not a museum of museums.

Mike Cline-Hughes is Managing Director of the Northern Strategy and Operations, a consulting firm working with the cultural heritage and institutions. NS & D has a unique combination of commercial and non-profit experience and skills that distinguishes it from others.

Tags: class gap, generous gesture, museum of online museums, preservation collection, sir hans sloane

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