museums and wikipedia
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A common path
L. Shyamal2014
Private collections of the wealthy
Ole Worm (1588-1654)
Cabinet of curiosities
Ashmole gifted his collections in 1677 to the University of Oxford. A building was made for it and opened to the public in 1683 as the Ashmolean Museum.
Opening up to the public
Colonialism and rapid growth
The Sloane bequest involved passing an Act in 1753 which allowed the British Museum to open itself to the public on 5 January 1759
http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/archives/t/the_british_museum_act_of_1753.aspx
The state gets involved
Openness and participation
Note: Copyrighted book covers used for purpose of commentary/review (under a fair use clause)
Diderot suggested a national museum for France in the ninth volume of the Encyclopédie (1765)
The Encylopaedia and the Museum
The Encylopaedia and some other tertiary sources
1796
1913http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/05/oxford-english-dictionary-mystery-meanderings-of-memory.html
1884
17721669
Edward Balfour (1813-1889)
Two museums, a zoo, a library and an encyclopaedia!
Crowdsourced and “free”
Technology - the Internet
AccessibilityImagesContentInteractive exhibitsMultimediaParticipationReuseResearchLearningCreativity Synthesis
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Geology_Exhibits_QR_Coded_Derby_Museum_Muscovite_obscured_QR.jpg
From control to freedom
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Public Domain - no restrictions
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