Talk:Museum/Archive 1

Statement
Museums are institutions (not buildings!) that keep and use objects (of nature, science, art and history and other memorabilia) for research and presentation. The museum building acts as interface between the public and the holdings of the museum.

history of museums
The first museum was the museum of Alexandria, a center of learning like the Academy or Lyceum, it wasn't until the Renaissance that museums displayed objects and such, maybe this should be included

One temple of Muses (aka Mouseion) was also in the Athenian suburb Akademeia (Hekademeia), where Platon's Academy was situated. This could also be included. --Oop 02:15, Nov 5, 2004 (UTC)

comment
I made some changes to the article. I also removed some parts from the lengthy introduction. If anyone opposes the changes I made, feel free to revert it back. I've also added a todo at the top. Gflores Talk 00:02, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Add Smithsonian Education link?
Hello! I am a writer for the Smithsonian's Center for Education and Museum Studies. Our office offers a site for teachers titled "Creating a Classroom Museum." It is found at this address:

http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/educators/lesson_plans/collect/crecla/crecla0a.htm

If you think the audience would find this valuable, I wish to invite you to include it as an external link. We would be most grateful.

Thank you so much for your attention.

List of Largest Museums
Wikipedia appears to have no list of largest museums (as judged by any criteria). Would love to see such an article. Wonder where the sources are to make such a list. Would they be listed by budget, floor area, attendance? Can someone help?

Question
Would the plural be musea? Thanks.14:18, 14 December 2006 (UTC) Cameron Nedland

Very rarely - museums is best Johnbod 14:35, 14 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks.Cameron Nedland 21:14, 14 December 2006 (UTC)


 * O duh. Maybe I should read the article :-)Cameron Nedland 21:19, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

VATICAN MUSEUMS!!!

museum user box
As a museum and heritage worker in providing learning I belong to various networks that share knowledge, thereby not re-inventing the wheel. I am not saying that this needs to be a result of this 'link' but I have created a user box for professional in the museum - heritage field. It will add a category to the page. User:Edmund Patrick/Userboxes/Museum will take you there. --Edmund Patrick 08:35, 31 July 2007 (UTC)


 * The category Wikipedian heritage museum workers sounds as though it refers to museum workers specializing in the Wikipedia, itself. -- Futhark|Talk 09:41, 31 July 2007 (UTC)


 * the category naming follows the general rules as far as I could see, but I maybe wrong. See Template:User_mechanical_engineer as a random example. The box is meant to highlight that the wikipedian is employed in some way in the fields of heritage and - or museums. If I am wrong I am quite happy to see the name changed but I am not sure that can now be done. --Edmund Patrick 12:21, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

Artifact or Artefact?
I was going to change it to the latter, but thought I should maybe post on here first. Artefact seems to be more common in Britain, whereas artifact is more frequently used in America. The word comes from the latin arte so I think artefact would probably be best. 03x072 19:01, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
 * agreed but people will still question it. Edmund Patrick ( confer work) 19:18, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

How to do a project proposal about museum?
I need to do a project proposal about museum,but i don't know which direction should i go with, i need your help. Thanks a lot! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.31.51.6 (talk) 02:33, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
 * WikiProject Museums has recently been created - please take a look & sign up to help if interested.&mdash; Rod talk 10:45, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Some problems with this article
I have been going through and adding references whee I can - but there are a lot of claims which need to be supported by WP:RS I have marked these with citation needed. There is also a lot of duplication between the art histories and History sections - with at least 6 separate claims to be the first museum! Some sections are very short (eg maritime museums, mobile museums) & other areas include examples which have obviously been added by those with a particular interest in a local museum but perhaps better examples could be found. I will try to work on some of these issues but any help appreciated.&mdash; Rod talk 20:54, 5 April 2008 (UTC)


 * I think the claims to be 'the first museum' can mostly be deleted and, where appropriate, each museum can simply be given a date of foundation. I'm also changing the 'Origins' section to 'etymology' to reflect the nature of the information once the 'first museum' claim is removed.Camarthist (talk) 14:41, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
 * It would make more sense to compare claims with some justification in a single section. Since there is no discussion here relating to the NPOV tag, now 6 mths old, I'm removing it. Johnbod (talk) 13:02, 16 September 2008 (UTC)


 * the excessive use parentheses irks me; I may go through and simply use commas where appropriate - that would be most spots. Dylan Hsu (talk) 03:15, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

People categories need cleanup
We have three categories which seem to overlap: Category:Museologists, Category:Museum people, Category:Museum occupations. They should probably be merged.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 18:05, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
 * They are fine (now anyway). Museum people is the head-cat. Museum occupations, like others in that tree, is for types of jobs not people, & Museologists is for the study of museums & seems ok. Johnbod (talk) 12:59, 16 September 2008 (UTC)