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  • 1. EXHIBITS ANDMUSEUMSprepared by: Girlie Bernales

2. EXHIBIT/EXHIBITIONS is an organized presentation and display of a selection of items. exhibitions usually occur within museums, galleries and exhibitionhall, and World's Fairs. may be permanent displays or temporary. in common usage, "exhibitions" are considered temporary andusually scheduled to open and close on specific dates. While manyexhibitions are shown in just one venue, some exhibitions areshown in multiple locations and are called travelling exhibitions,and some are online exhibitions. 3. Art exhibitions include an array of artifacts from countless forms of human making:paintings, drawings, crafts, sculpture, video installations, soundinstallations, performances, interactive art, etc. may focus on one artist, one group, one genre, one theme or onecollection; or may be organized by curators, selected by juries, orshow any artwork submitted. 4. Interpretive exhibitions are exhibitions that require more context to explain the items beingdisplayed. The topics of interpretive graphics cover a wide rangeincluding archaeology, anthropology, ethnology, history, science,technology and natural history. 5. Commercial exhibitions generally called trade fairs, trade shows or expos usually organized so that organizations in a specific interest orindustry can showcase and demonstrate their latest products,service, study activities of rivals and examine recent trends andopportunities Some trade fairs are open to the public, while others can only beattended by company representatives (members of the trade) andmembers of the press. 6. MUSEUMS 7. MUSEUMS an institution that cares for (conserves) a collection of artifacts andother objects of scientific, artistic ,cultural, or historical importanceand makes them available for public viewing through exhibits thatmay be permanent or temporary The purpose of modern museums is to collect, preserve, interpret,and display items of cultural, artistic, or scientific significance forthe education of the public. The purpose can also depend on onespoint of view. 8. Early museums began as the private collections of wealthy individuals, families orinstitutions of art and rare or curious natural objects and artifacts. Public access to these museums were often possible for the"respectable", especially to private art collections, but at the whimof the owner and his staff. One way that elite men during this time period gained a highersocial status in the world of elites was by becoming a collector ofthese curious objects and displaying them. 9. CAPITOLINE MUSEUMthe oldest public collection of art in the world, began in 1471 when Pope Sixtus IVdonated a group of important ancient sculptures to the people of Rome. 10. TYPES OF MUSEUMS 11. ARCHITECHTURAL MUSEUMS Architectural museums are institutions dedicated to educatingvisitors about architecture and a variety of related fields, oftenincluding urban design, landscape design, interior decoration,engineering, and historic preservation. 12. ARCHITECHTURAL MUSEUMS 13. ARCHITECHTURAL MUSEUMS 14. ART MUSEUMS An art museum, also known as an art gallery, is a space for theexhibition of art, usually in the form of art objects from the visualarts, primarily paintings, illustrations, and sculpture. 15. ART MUSEUMS 16. BIOGRAPHICAL MUSEUMS Biographical museums are dedicated to items relating to the life ofa single person or group of people, and may also display the itemscollected by their subjects during their lifetimes. Some biographical museums are located in a house or other siteassociated with the lives of their subjects 17. BIOGRAPHICAL MUSEUMS 18. CHILDRENS MUSEUMS Children's museums are institutions that provide exhibits andprograms to stimulate informal learning experiences for children. In contrast with traditional museums that typically have a hands-offpolicy regarding exhibits, children's museums feature interactiveexhibits that are designed to be manipulated by children. 19. CHILDRENS MUSEUM 20. ETHNOLOGY MUSEUMS Ethnology museums are a type of museum that focus on studying,collecting, preserving and displaying artifacts and objectsconcerning ethnology and anthropology. This type of museum usually were built in countries possessingdiverse ethnic groups or significant numbers of ethnic minorities. 21. ETHNOLOGYMUSEUMSIndonesia Museumin TMII built inBalinesearchitecture, is anethnology museumdisplaying variousartifacts and way oflife of ethnicgroups in Indonesia 22. HISTORY MUSEUMS History museums cover the knowledge of history and its relevanceto the present and future. Historic houses is the most numerouswithin this category. 23. HISTORYMUSEUMS 24. MARITIME MUSEUMS Maritime museums are museums that specialize in the presentationof maritime history, culture or archaeology. They explore the relationship between societies and certain bodiesof water. 25. MARITIME MUSEUMS 26. MEDICAL MUSEUMS Medical museums functioned as an integral part of medicalstudents education. Dry and wet anatomical specimens, casts, drawings, oil paintings,and photographs provided a means for medical students tocompare healthy anatomical specimens with abnormal, or diseasedorgans. 27. MEDICAL MUSEUMS 28. MILITARY AND WAR MUSEUMS Military museums specialize in military histories; they are oftenorganized from a national point of view, where a museum in aparticular country will have displays organized around conflicts inwhich that country has taken part. They typically include displays of weapons and other militaryequipment, uniforms, wartime propaganda and exhibits on civilianlife during wartime, and decorations, among others. 29. MILITARY AND WAR MUSEUMS 30. MOBILE MUSEUMS Mobile museum is a term applied to museums that makeexhibitions from a vehicle such as a van. Some institutions, use the term to refer to a portion of theircollection that travels to sites away from the museum foreducational purposes. Other mobile museums have no "home site", and use travel as theirexclusive means of presentation. 31. MOBILE MUSEUMS 32. NATURAL HISTORY/NATURAL SCIENCEMUSEUMS Museums of natural history and natural science typically exhibitwork of the natural world. The focus lies on nature and culture. Exhibitions educate the public on natural history, dinosaurs,zoology, oceanography, anthropology and more. Evolution,environmental issues, and biodiversity are major areas in naturalscience museums. 33. NATURALHISTORYMUSEUMS 34. OPEN-AIR MUSEUMS/LIVING HISTORY MUSEUMS Open-air museums and living history museums collect and re-erectold buildings at large outdoor sites, usually in settings of re-createdlandscapes of the past. 35. OPEN-AIR MUSEUMS and LIVING MUSEUMS 36. Las Casas Filipinas de Acuzar, Bataan 37. SCIENCE MUSEUMS Science museums were institutions of authoritative, uncontestable,knowledge, places of 'collecting, seeing and knowing, places where"anybody" might come and survey the evidence of science. 38. SCIENCE MUSEUMS 39. SPECIALIZED MUSEUMS A number of different museums exist to demonstrate a variety oftopics. 40. SPECIALIZED MUSEUMS 41. VIRTUAL MUSEUMS A recent development, with the expansion of the web, is theestablishment of virtual museums. Online initiatives providephysical museums with a web presence. 42. VIRTUAL MUSEUMS