What are museums?

Museums are institutions that maintain art, artifacts and sculptures to improve society. Visitors can be inspired and enlightened by exhibits available for viewing. Almost all museums fall into one of the following categories: fine arts, applied arts, craft, archeology, anthropology and ethnology, history, cultural history, military history, science, technology, children's museums, natural history, numismatics and filals.

Museums meet their mission through tours of exhibits, lectures and cultural programs. Due to the popularity of the Internet, there are also virtual exhibits. The activities of the museum, especially interactive exhibits, are currently expanding through progresss in museology, studying how to organize and manage museums and collections of museums. 6 Substate museums around the world. During the 15th ICOM General Assembly in 1986 was adopted an ethical code on how the museums should be administered. Among the problems are the acquisitions of collections; As they shouldT exhibits organized, maintained and removed; the legal framework under which the museums work; And the cultural sensitivity with which the displays should be organized. Another organization that serves to improve museology is the association of museums. It is founded in 1889 in the UK, it is the oldest organization of individual professionals in the museum, members of businesses and institutions and serves as a vehicle to support better museum management through training, dissemination of information, annual conferences, etc.

One museum that benefits from the Museology is the Metropolitan Museum of Art, located in New York. It includes artifacts, sculptures, images and scrolls that span huge sections of time and distance. Activities include a series of lectures, festive activities that include Christmas tree lighting, concert series and even Spanish class for children and families.

museums are important for improving SPOlečnosti, not only for general educational purposes, but also for probes specific problems, such as the difference between respect and religious icons. The Getty Museum, located in Los Angeles, tries to solve this problem with an exhibition containing religious art, such as the portrait of the apostle Peter, who holds the keys to the sky and a table with a chalice, patent and cross, also from the sixth century. Visitors are able to draw their own conclusions about the relationship between religion and art.