Although little is known about its provenance, it provides a meaningful dialogue with its viewer. Other artworks given to the university since 1993 invite an appreciation of the artists who created them. Though the exhibition is diverse in its offerings, it shows the variety of aesthetic approaches in the collection. These are the questions whose answers describe the university or college museum's intention to bring these values to the students and the campus community. The role of the collection in the academic environment is to provide an ongoing opportunity for works of art to be viewed and, more importantly, studied, providing a dialogue among members of the art audience to learn about cultural and aesthetic values.
Collections begin the moment art objects are acquired by the college.
Some are from generous donors whose interest in particular types of art brought them pleasure during their lives to be shared with others in the future. Some collections are provided with an interest in impacting upon the visual environment of the campus with works of art that engender discussions. Others may afford a provocative view of art and society either in the recent or distant past. It consisted of the famous library in addition to collections in all of the museum fields, and astronomical observatory, and facilities for research and for establishment and was, in fact, the first real museum. Thus, the museum and its collections were deemed important in the preservation of art and artifacts of the past, even in the Ancient World.