UNDERSTANDING
MUSEUMS
UNDERSTANDI
NG MUSEUMS
• Museums contains records of human presence and the
individual experience of people.
• It served as evidences of human existence in the
depiction of history.
• Museum provides the authenticity of the historical
writings through objects and artefacts.
• It is valuable addition to civilizations and societies.
• It provides precise collections to interpret our different
socisl histories.
IMPORTANCE
AND PURPOSE
OF MUSEUMS
IMPORTANCE A museum is an important institution that
AND PURPOSE preserves cultural heritage with the primary
OF MUSEUMS intent to
COLLECT
PRESERVE
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Museums in the past were being misunderstood, and very few
individuals would understand it’s ideology why it was built. It
would be describe in the past as compelling and astonishing.
Marvelled and facinated by a strange and different things it
holds, yet it gives anxiety.
IMPORTANCE AND PURPOSE OF
They are not only used to collect, preserve,
research and exhibit the different relics and
antiques. They are also special places where
heritage is being preserved.
IMPORTANCE AND PURPOSE OF
Banaue Rice Terraces, Ifugao Cagsawa Ruins, Albay Malacañan Palace, Manila
IMPORTANCE AND PURPOSE OF
• Museums offer formal and non-formal
academics to anyone who will be taking an
interest because it is free to the public.
• Museums will also to give more of a deeper
insight and reflections on historical development
and cultural artifcats as well.
IMPORTANCE AND PURPOSE OF
Types of museums are dedicated to preserving and
interpreting the material aspects of human activity
and the environment. Certain museums provide for a
specialist audience-for example, children, societies,
universities, or schools.
IMPORTANCE AND PURPOSE OF
MUSEUMS
Sometimes museums are classified according to the source of their funding (e.g.,
state, municipal, private), particularly in statistical work. Classifying by source of
funding, however, fails to indicate the true character of the museums' collections.
For example, institutions funded by the national government-national museums -
may hold outstanding international collections, as do the British Museum, the
Hermitage, and the Louvre; may hold specialized collections, as do several national
museums of antiquities on the European continent; or may have an essentially local
character, as does the Smithsonian Institution's Anacostia Neighborhood Museum in
Washington, DC (Lewis, 1998).
IMPORTANCE AND PURPOSE OF
GENERAL
MUSEUMS
General museums hold collections in more than one subject and are therefore
sometimes known as multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary museums. Many were
founded in the 18th, 19th, or early 20th century. Most originated in earlier private
collections and reflected the encyclopedic spirit of the times. Certain general
museums reflect the influence of cultural contact made through trade. Some
museums hold a number of important specialized collections that would qualify
them to be grouped in more than one category of specialization. This is true
particularly of many of the large general museums, which may have collections in
one or more fields equal to if not exceeding both the quantity and quality of
material exhibited in a specialized museum.
Most common among general museums are those which serve a region or a
locality. Many of these owe their foundation to civic pride and a desire to
promote knowledge of the area. Their prime responsibility is to reflect the
natural and human history, traditions, and creative spirit of the area.
Sometimes special exhibitions prepared by the national museum or other
agencies provide opportunities at regional museums for the community to
appreciate the wider aspects of the national or even international heritage.