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Museums
A museum (/mjuˈziːəm/; myoo-zee-um) is an institution that cares for (conserves) a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance and some public museums makes them available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary. Most large museums are located in major cities throughout the world and more local ones exist in smaller cities, towns and even the countryside. Museums have varying aims, ranging from serving researchers and specialists to serving the general public. The goal of serving researchers is increasingl
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Museums are secular churches . . . and to steal there is blasphemous.
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― The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
― The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
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One of the wider purposes of our museum is to make life better worth living- not by adding luster to riches and creating pleasurable reactions to the avowedly aesthetic, but by encouraging all to discover possibilities of agreeable emotions in the contemplation of things.
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The purpose of this group is to read and discuss books pertaining to Art History, the Visual Art…more
1 member,
last active 12 years ago
We are a group of Museum Professionals reading books, monographs, blogs, articles, and other ite…more
1 member,
last active 11 years ago
Book group for staff based at Oxford University Museum of Natural History.
A place to share thi…more
30 members,
last active 6 years ago
