Purposes of Museums. One of the chief purposes of a museum as a public institution is to educate people. It does this with exhibitions, guide service, lectures, radio talks, and publications. It also helps schools by lending them materials. School classes often visit Museums.
Museums also carry on research.
They make it easy for scholars to continue their investigations. Their most important task is assembling, protecting, and exhibiting .collections. Education and research profit immensely from museum collections. The United States now has more than 3,000 museums. They include general museums, and museums of art, history, natural history, and applied science.