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Where dead things are immortal and the guard is the most overworked employee alive
means A building or institution where objects of artistic, historical, scientific, or cultural value are collected, preserved, and put on display for the public.
from From Latin museum, itself borrowed from Greek mouseion, meaning a 'seat or shrine of the Muses' — the nine goddesses who presided over the arts and sciences. The most famous early mouseion was at Alexandria: not a gallery of relics but a research institution and library where scholars gathered under the Muses' patronage. The word kept that scholarly flavor for centuries before settling, by the 17th century in English, into its modern sense of a place where collections are kept and shown.
- hidden hoard
- Most museums display under 5% of holdings
- word origin
- From Greek mouseion, a temple to the Muses
- oldest one
- A Babylonian princess curated artifacts around 530 BC
- vault life
- The Louvre would take 100 days to fully see
the louvre — paris, france; 8.9 million visitors annually, world's most visited museum
british museum — london, england; houses egyptian mummies, rosetta stone, parthenon sculptures
metropolitan museum of art — new york city; 5.2 million visitors in 2023, spans 5,000 years of art
uffizi gallery — florence, italy; renaissance masterpieces by botticelli, leonardo, michelangelo