the origin of museums
history and culture of museums
Palazzo della Ragione, Bergamo
Ptuj (Slovenia)
Confucius
K’ung-Fu-Tzu
(551-479 BC)
Ch’ü-fu, Duchy of Lu
(now province of Shantung)
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Thesaurus of the
Athenians
Delphi
(5th century BC)
Shoso-in / Todaiji Monastery, Nara (near Kyoto), Japan
Pinakotheke
Parthenon (Athens)
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Muses
Zeus x Mnemosyne
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Kalliope
Kleio
Euterpe
Thaleia
Melpomene
Terpsichore
Erato
Polyhymnia
Ourania
Valley of the Muses, Thespies (Helikon), origin 6th century BC
Jan Amos Comenius (1592-1670)
Orbis sensualium pictus (1654)
Studiolo Frederico da Montefeltro (1467)
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warm
air
moist
fire Prometheus
water
dry
cold
earth
Scientific collections
Samuel Quiccheberg (1529-1567)
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Conrad Gesner (1516-1565)
Cabinet Cospi, Bologna (1677)
Ole Worm (1588-1654): Musei Wormiani (Leiden 1655)
Michael Bernhard Valentini
(1657-1714)
Musei Museorum
Frankfurt 1704
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(Neickelius) Musseographia 1727
Caspar Friedrich
h Einckel
John Tradescant sr
1577-1638
John Tradescant jr
1608-1662
Musaeum Tradescantianum (“the Ark”)
Ashmolean Mu
useum, Oxford
1683
Elias Ashmole (1617-1677)
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Learned Societies
• Royal Society for the Promotion of Natural
Knowledge (1660)
• Académie Royale des Sciences (1666)
• Royal Institution (1799)
Jardin des Plantes, Paris
Lavoisier
York
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Scarborough
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Lecture hall
Library
Collection
Laboratory
national museums
Hans Sloane
1660-1753
British Museum (Montagu House) 1753 (1759)
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arts
• (1793) Musée de la République (= Louvre)
sciences
• (1793) Muséum d’ Histoire Naturelle
technology
• (1794) Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers
history
• (1795) Musée des Monuments Français
Great exhibition 1851
John Ruskin (1819-1900)
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Henry Cole
1808-1882
Prince Albert
1819-1861
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South Kensington Museum (Victoria & Albert Museum)
refreshment room 1863
South Kensington Museum (Victoria & Albert Museum)
refreshment room 1868 (William Morris)
Victoria & Albert Museum, museum restaurant 21st century
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