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1 Notable museums of this type include the Natural History Museum in ________, the Oxford University Museum of Natural History in Oxford, the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.

2 A recent development, with the expansion of the web, is the establishment of ________.

3 The persons in charge of the collection and of the exhibits are known as ________.

4 The first public museums in the world opened in Europe during the 18th century and the ________:

5 the Museo Sacro, the first museum in the Vatican Museums complex, was opened in ________ in 1756[citation needed]

6 the ________ in London, was founded in 1753 and opened to the public in 1759.

7 museums of modern art, local history, aviation history, ________ or geology.

8 An ________, also known as an art gallery, is a space for the exhibition of art, usually in the form of art objects from the visual arts, primarily paintings, illustrations, and sculpture.

9 The first one was King Oscar II's collection near Oslo in ________, opened in 1881 and is now the Norsk Folkemuseum.

10 They may include a historic ship (or a replica) made accessible as a ________.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Sanssouci Picture Gallery is the oldest extant museum built for a German ruler?
  • the Holophusikon was a museum of natural curiosities and ethnographic items collected by Ashton Lever and exhibited in London from 1775?
  • the Swedish art collector Rolf de Maré (pictured) created the world's first museum and research institute for dance?
  • the Sapporo Factory in Japan, a building complex with a shopping mall, offices, a multiplex movie theatre and a Meissen porcelain museum, was originally constructed as a brewery?
  • the Yūshūkan, a Japanese military and war museum owned and operated by Yasukuni Shrine, has been at the center of an international controversy?
  • when Catalyst museum (pictured) in Widnes, Cheshire was opened in 1989, it was the world's first museum devoted to the chemicals industry?
  • the inshore marine fish bumpnose trevally and longfin trevally are similarly shaped and thus often misidentified, reportedly even in some museum collections?
  • the 13th-century Hanging Chapel in Langport has been a town hall, grammar school, museum and armoury before becoming a masonic hall?
  • after decommissioning, the Commandant's Quarters of the Dearborn Arsenal was used as a library, American Legion hall, town hall, police station, school, newspaper office, and finally a museum?
  • Congregation Beth Israel, the planned site of a Jewish heritage museum in Scottsdale, Arizona, had been used as the First Chinese Baptist Church and the Central Baptist Church?
  • Ash Lawn-Highland, the former home of U.S. President James Monroe, has been transformed into a 535-acre working farm, museum, and site for the performing arts?
  • Mozart was a frequent guest at the villa Bertramka on the outskirts of Prague and that the house is now a museum in his memory?
  • Myna Potts, an historical preservationist from West Texas, converted her father's former general store into a museum dedicated to rural people of the recent past?
  • Agilisaurus was first discovered when construction workers were excavating a site for a new dinosaur museum in China?
  • a retired teacher Simon Vega operates the "Little Graceland" museum in Los Fresnos near Brownsville, Texas as a tribute to his Army buddy Elvis Presley?
  • USS Stewart, now a museum in Texas, is the only surviving example of an Edsall class destroyer escort?
  • retired Major General Charles D. Metcalf is the current Director of the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, the world’s oldest and largest military aviation museum?
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