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  2. Museum - Wikipedia

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    The English word museum comes from Latin, and is pluralized as museums (or rarely, musea).It is originally from the Ancient Greek Μουσεῖον (), which denotes a place or temple dedicated to the muses (the patron divinities in Greek mythology of the arts), and hence was a building set apart for study and the arts, [1] especially the Musaeum (institute) for philosophy and research at ...

  3. Lists of museums - Wikipedia

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    The estimated total number of museums worldwide is around 104,000. Museum institutions are not evenly distributed globally, with Western Europe and North America housing around 61% of museums as of March 2021. [2] The International Council of Museums comprises approximately 30,000 members in 137 countries.

  4. List of museums in the United States - Wikipedia

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    See List of museums in New York. See also Category:Museums in New York (state). See also List of university art museums and galleries in New York State. See also List of museums and cultural institutions in New York City.

  5. List of most-visited museums - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of the most-visited museums in the world in 2023 by annual attendance statistics. Total attendance at the top sixty museums in 2023, as reported by the annual TEA-AECOM Museum survey, reached 94 percent of 2019 levels, before the COVID 19 pandemic.

  6. Category:Museums - Wikipedia

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    A museum is a building or institution which houses and cares for a collection of artifacts and other objects of scientific, artistic, or historical importance and makes them available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary.

  7. List of national museums - Wikipedia

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    The Government Museum Complex in Chennai, which also houses the National Art Gallery and the Connemara Public Library. A national museum can be a museum maintained and funded by a national government. [1] In many countries it denotes a museum run by the central government, while other museums are run by regional or local governments. [2]

  8. List of museums by country - Wikipedia

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    This list of museums is defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.

  9. British Museum - Wikipedia

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    The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is the largest in the world. [3] It documents the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present.