Why do we have museums? - J. V. Maranto 

Would the giftshop of giftshops be a place where you can buy an intire shop as a present?

Coen Van Noord maybe it sells tiny models of other gift shops

That would be too disappointing.

I mean, to Alison Jones

I couldn't find online store.

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+Tomeow To get the museum more money, even if the things the gift store sells have nothing to do with the museum.

There is the Internet but that also has the money issue as Internet access and computers are not free

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I was just going to say that.

I am yet to see a museum with free admission

Only the bad ones cost money.

I live in the U.S. and my family pays for a yearly membership. It works for multiple museums across the nation and some zoos (we've used it in TN, NC, and FL). All we have to do is show our membership card at the gate and we're allowed on through without paying any extra. I think it's something in the range of $30-$50 annually.

They are FREE in Australia too.

The payments for such things are probably made through taxes. If the gov't owns them, the people pay for it, but not directly.

😂 Truthfully though, the ancient Greeks both collected and venerated the ruins and artifacts of the ancient Mycenaeans 1000 years before them whom they viewed as a much greater civilization than their own. Greek mythology and Homer’s epics like ‘The Iliad’ and ‘The Odyssey” depict both real and fictional moments from that much older age leading up to the Macedonian Empire of the 800’s B.C. And going back even further than that, even those ancient Mycenaeans, Phoenicians, Egyptians of 1,200 B.C., and later the Achaemenid empire (before Persia) and Assyrian (before Babylonian) believed the cultures that inhabited Mesopotamia 1,000 years before them such as the Akkadian Empire of the early 2,000’s B.C. were closer to astrological truths and the divine nature of the gods. If we trace the world’s oldest monotheistic religion, Zoroastrianism (which was the precursor to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam and have TREMENDOUS similarities to Zoroaster’s cosmology), we go all the way back to the ancient city-state civilization of Sumer back in 3,000-3,500 B.C. and beyond which in turn considered itself very modern in comparison to the small kingdoms that pre-dated even that. Pretty much everything after the invention of agriculture in 10,000 B.C. slowly allowed human culture to flourish and coalesce into tribes, then small settlements, and thanks to increased trade, towns, cities, kingdoms, and finally continent-ruling empires 6,000 years ago. Looking at mankind’s history through this lens really does make our history from the Renaissance to now seem insanely modern! Centuries really aren’t that long if we’re being totally honest; it’s just our lifespans are so pitifully short, we loose sight of the macro view of things on a millennial level. And even then, 6-7,000 years of human development in language and culture is nothing in comparison to the eons our planet, Earth has evolved from 4.5 BILLION years ago. The real kicker here however is that throughout almost the entirety of human civilizations, we’ve always felt we were worse off than the preceding generations. The ancient Assyrians believed they were living in the last days, and in 700 B.C., the Ancient Greek poet Hesiod wrote in his book “Works and Days” a sequence of metallic ages depicting the ages of man, but they are degradations rather than progressions. Each age has less of a moral value than the preceding one. Of his own age he says: "And I wish that I were not any part of the fifth generation of men, but had died before it came, or had been born afterward."

Then sans came to be.

TanTinTon Me too!

i dont get it lol

Museums are not just for exhibition. Only a small part of some museums are while a much larger part is reserved for experiment. A museum has a lot more things than those that are publicly displayed.

Warriorwyatt10 0 yes me too! I thought I was the only one!

Immediately I thought that

SAME

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It was Persia, after all.

***** suadi arabia was the birthplace of Islam and not Iraq :)

***** Baghdad in Iraq was build by the Islamic abbasid empire *Caliphate* and was the capital of the Islamic empire and the capital of all knowledge for hundred of years ! so Iraq has a big rule during the Islamic period which back then was quite admirable

sara meachel 'Capital of all knowledge', I wouldn't agree to that.

***** and for the huns that catholiscm survived

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It's after!

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probably gift shops.. but what do THOSE gift shops sell?

YES THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT I WAS THINKING

I believe a vast collection of literature is usually described with the word 'library'-

Museum are quite similar to a circus back then, though they had acts and such, people came for the novelty of an exotic animal of an unordinary person- museums were just scientific oddities not so mischievous different .

montork I don't think women invented art. That's a very narrow view of the world to assume just one gender invented art.

????? some of the earliest recorded art is hand spraying.. hand prints left by spraying paint around the hand, its a complex process involving a bowl of pigment and a hollow tube... anyway, the vast majority of the hand prints where from females... like 75% female. these are placed all over, even alongside cave paintings of horses and other animals.

the thing i find most odd is your strange double standard. its narrow to assume just one gender invented something......... ....... and yet what has been done the majority of recorded history? but then the idea that only one gender did something becomes an issue only when females are getting credit for something? thats bullshit.

montork I am a female, I am not being sexist against women, or not giving credit where it is due. I just don't think it is necessary to attach art to any one gender.

it's not. but people are more then happy to do it.