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Museum
* Many museums also sponsor youth and education programs after school or on weekends
  - are successful places for learning, of play, entertainment, and even retail experience
  - exhibit ancient Persian textiles, rugs, and pottery
* Many museums have a limited number of old bicycles in their collections
  - an Internet presence
  - conservation laboratories with modern scientific equipment
  - displays of home life through previous generations
  - small shops which sell a variety of modern reproductions and some original items
  - things that are just presented as works of craftsmanship
* Many museums maintain collections of species of animals
  - lending collections of books, audio-visual materials, and artifact kits
  - now have walk-in freezers, like giant meat lockers, in which they store things
* Most museums have bird specimens
  - images of objects or exhibitions
  - paintings
  - sculpture
  - keep between one and ten percent of their collections on display at any one time
  - look at the positives in history and society
* Some museums display the works of famous artists
  - even have kids' gift shops, with educational toys, games, and books
* Some museums have a special room where children can draw, build and play
  - films about dinosaurs and volcanoes
  - special websites presenting material for children
  - now have family sleep-in nights
  - offer classes in art, ceramics, wildlife and photography
* Some museums possess animals
  - butterflies
  - mollusks
* Some museums provide hands-on science experiences for children of many ages
  - research bibliographies for works in their collection
  - specialize in topics such as country life, costumer, war, and flight
* also employ a broad range of scientists.
* are also favourite places of information and further education for the population
  - good sources of paintings, textiles, ceramics and such
  - cemetaries
  - dynamic organizations that respond to the challenges of today's world
* are educational institutions if they are anything
  - essential in the protection and diffusion of our cultural and natural heritage
  - ideal settings to study children s socialization into science
* are important because of the many services they provide the public
  - cultural institutions, symbols of power, stature, and sophistication
  - to the state s tourism and local economies, particularly in rural areas
  - institutions in the service of society that contribute to sustainable development
  - large buildings
* are located in big cities
  - notorious for charging no admission at times when people are likely asleep
  - part of an object-centred culture
  - places where people gather informally, places of collective memory and imagination
* are repositories for evidence
  - of ideas, of culture, of civilization
  - social institutions and, as such, agents of social change
* are the custodians of our culture
  - family sepulchres of works of art
  - natural habitat of the extinct
  - only institutions that use actual artifacts to tell a story
  - themselves a cultural artifact, produced in specific milieus
  - tremendously important institutions
* are used for education
* can be about different things such as art, national history, natural history, or science.
* collect three-dimensional artifacts and artwork.
* consist of people, collections and buildings.
* contain examples
* count bodies, publishers live and die by their own numbers.
* create dreams, dreams create desire, desire creates action, and action creates our future.
* educate, and reflect and reinforce the values and identities of the communities they serve.
* enrich the lives of individuals, creating better communities in which to live and work.
* exist for the purposes of education, study and enjoyment.
* frequently have displays and activities geared for kids.
* generally commemorate the past, delving into history through art, fossils and relics.
* have a distinctive role in society
  - attraction
* have collections that are studied and exhibited to the public
  - they study and exhibit to the public
  - descriptions
  - many curators, each of whom has expertise in a different area of art
  - reputations
  - strict standards that dictate how a work can be moved
  - the largest collection of Chinese art in the world
* hire marine mammal scientists for educational programs, research, and curatorial positions.
* hire paleontologists as research scientists and educators
  - to oversee collections of fossils
* hold and sustain the precious heritage of humanity.
  - storage space
* offer demonstrations
* often display photographs, and curators use formulas to figure out where to set the lights
  - organize special exhibitions, such as paintings by a famous painter
* play a unique role in heritage conservation.
* present overviews.
* serve as stewards of heritage, as educators and as community gathering places.
* study dinosaurs.
* take care of fossils, and national parks are bIg museums.
* typically contort the faces of mounted bears to show unnatural snarls.
+ Computer museum: Museums :: Computers
  * For example, the Science Museum in London and the Deutsches Museum in Munich. Others, such as the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, the MuseumsForum in Paderborn, and The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park, deal only with computing. Some deal mainly in the early history of computing. Others focus in the era that started with the first personal computers such as the Apple I, Altair 8800, Apple IIs, older Apple Macintoshes, Commodore Internationals, Amigas, IBM PCs and more rare computers such as the Osborne 1. Some deal more on research and conservation. Some museums are for computer education and entertainment. There are also private collections.
+ Exhibition: Trade :: Events
  * Museums often organize special exhibitions, such as paintings by a famous painter. Exhibitions can be about anything. They may be to do with art, or they can also be science exhibitions.
+ Museum, Function
  * Some museums have things that visitors can do.
  * Museums can be about different things such as art, national history, natural history, or science. People go to museums sometimes to learn, or to simply have fun.