page_title: Biographical museum
hierarchical_section_title: Biographical museum
caption_attribution_description: English: Casa Paoli — at 14 Mayor Street, within the Ponce Historic Zone, in Ponce, Puerto Rico. The 1870s house with a 1910s Neoclassical facade, is a present day history museum, and is on the National Register of Historic Places in Ponce, Puerto Rico. Credits Photo is of main facade, taken on July 22, 2009 by Juan Llanes Santos of the Puerto Rico State Historic Preservation Office. Please acknowledge author name and agency in any use.
context_page_description: A biographical museum is a museum dedicated to displaying items relating to the life of a single person or group of people, and may also display the items collected by their subjects during their lifetimes. Some biographical museums are located in a house, such as Casa Paoli Museum or other site associated with the lives of their subjects. Other examples of house-based biographical museums are Quinta de Bolívar in Bogotá, Colombia, the Keats-Shelley Memorial House, in Rome, Italy, and the Gjergj Kastrioti Skënderbeu National Museum in Krujë, Albania.
  Some homes of famous people house famous collections in the sphere of the owner's expertise or interests in addition to collections of their biographical material; one such example is The Wellington Museum, Apsley House, London, home of the Duke of Wellington, which, in addition to biographical memorabilia of the Duke's life, also houses his collection world-famous paintings. Other biographical museums, such as many of the American presidential libraries, are housed in specially constructed buildings.
context_section_description: A biographical museum is a museum dedicated to displaying items relating to the life of a single person or group of people, and may also display the items collected by their subjects during their lifetimes.  Some biographical museums are located in a house, such as Casa Paoli Museum or other site associated with the lives of their subjects. Other examples of house-based biographical museums are Quinta de Bolívar in Bogotá, Colombia, the Keats-Shelley Memorial House, in Rome, Italy, and the Gjergj Kastrioti Skënderbeu National Museum in Krujë, Albania. 
  Some homes of famous people house famous collections in the sphere of the owner's expertise or interests in addition to collections of their biographical material; one such example is The Wellington Museum, Apsley House, London, home of the Duke of Wellington, which, in addition to biographical memorabilia of the Duke's life, also houses his collection world-famous paintings.  Other biographical museums, such as many of the American presidential libraries, are housed in specially constructed buildings.
caption: The Casa Paoli museum, in Barrio Cuarto, Ponce, Puerto Rico, relates the story of Puerto Rican soprano Antonio Paoli
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