Museums Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
institution that holds artifacts and other objects of scientific, artistic, cultural, historical, or other importance
About Museums
Museums can be traced back over 2,000 years to private collections of wealthy individuals. Public museums started in the late middle ages. The Capitoline Museums were founded in 1471 and opened to the public in 1734. The Vatican Museums date back to 1506. The Royal Armouries in the Tower ofLondonopened to the public in 1660. However, museums did not become widespread until the 19th and 20th centuries. Museums are typically created to preserve historic artifacts, to educate and to enable research; though the term is not legally protected, and does not in itself warrant academic aspirations. Many museums are established by national and local governments or by universities, educational charities or non-profit organisations. A few museums are run as profit-making commercial ventures, while oth
Museums Travel Guide Sections
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