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Museum

An art museum is a building where works of art are distinguished, valued, collected, conserved, preserved, protected, promoted, inventoried, exhibited, showcased, interpreted, evaluated and judged. The word museum derives from the Greek word ‘mouseion,’ meaning “temple to the works of the muses” and the discipline of designing, organizing, curating and preparing exhibits, and directing museums is called museology.



Fundamentally, an art museum is primarily concerned with the work of art as a means of communication with its visitors. It is an inestimable cultural resource, a heritage preserver, a nation branding and society building center that innately offers the public a rich physical and social environment to experience, engage and interact with authentic works of art from important epochs in history, indelible eras in time and eminent periods in culture.






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