The history of museum Literature & Language Coursework

The History of Museums
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The History of Museums
1. What building was erected and opened in what year to the public for the sole purpose of housing a collection given to Oxford University?
A building called Ashmolean Museum was opened in 1683 to receive the collection.
2. In what century was the word “museum” used to denote a building housing cultural material to which the public had access?
It was during the 19th and mostly the 20th century
3. What are the “practical aspects of museum work”?
Conservation and display borrowed from other disciplines and techniques.
4. How did museums come to be organized?
When museums were regarded as a government service, and then universities and colleges took the responsibilities for museum training and research.
5. Does museology mean museum studies in most English-speaking counties
True
6. Sir Leonard Woolley discovered a tablet from the 6th Century BC Babylonian city of UR. What was it of and used for?
He described the tablet as a museum label used to describe 21stcentury-bc inscriptions
7. What type of objects may have been gathered in Classical Collecting?
The collection of objects with religious, economic, magical, aesthetic, and historical value
8. What Deputy of Emperor Augustus stated that paintings and statues should be available to the public?
 Agrippa
 
 
 
9. What did Chinese Emperors collect to promote the Arts?
Fine works of painting, metalwork, calligraphy, jade, pottery, and glass
10. Who had control over the collection of Art and Artifacts in Medieval Europe?
Emperor Charlemagne
11. Where did the first great collections begin to form?
In Italy
12. In Florence, Italy, who held the greatest collection in the 15th Century, and where was some of it displayed? What year was it opened to the public?
It was held by Cosimo de’ Medici and displayed on the upper floor of the Uffizi Palace in 1582                                                                                      
13. Match the collections with the correct Royal Collector:
Collections
French and Italian Craftsmen and Artist to rebuild and embellish Fontainebleau Appointment of the King's Antiquary in 1533
Displays of Arms and Armor
Collector Henry VII
Francis I Charles II
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Francis I

French and Italian Craftsmen and Artist to rebuild and embellish Fontainebleau

Henry VIII

Appointment of the Kings Antiquary in 1533

Charles II

Displays of Arms and Armor

14. When did Natural History interest develop to create special collections?
16th century
15. Name 2 well known "learned societies," and their dates also established their contributions to modern terms.
1 Royal Society in London established in 1660
2 Academy of Sciences in Paris established in 1666
They contri...