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The document discusses the evolution of museums, highlighting their origins as private collections and the establishment of public museums like the British Museum and the Louvre. It emphasizes the shift in perception of museums from static displays to centers of knowledge production and entertainment, particularly in the 20th century. Additionally, it notes the integration of technology in modern museums to enhance visitor engagement and communication.

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Week 1 - Keys

The document discusses the evolution of museums, highlighting their origins as private collections and the establishment of public museums like the British Museum and the Louvre. It emphasizes the shift in perception of museums from static displays to centers of knowledge production and entertainment, particularly in the 20th century. Additionally, it notes the integration of technology in modern museums to enhance visitor engagement and communication.

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Evolution of Musems Reading Answers

(Note: The text in italics is from the reading passage and shows the
location from where the answer is taken or inferred. The text in the
regular font explains the answer in detail.)

1. Collection/objects

Explanation: The very first museums of the world were


private collections of objects by wealthy people and institutions.

2. Public

Explanation: The first museums to be opened for the general public were
the British Museum in London in 1759 and the Uffizi Gallery in Florence in
1765.

3. Age

Explanation: The first public museum in its true sense was the Louvre in
Paris which was opened in 1793 to people of any status and age, emerging
as an agent of nationalistic fervor.

4. Focus

Explanation: In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, societies


began to regard museums as centers of production of new knowledge.
Historical museums shifted focus to display of scientific discoveries and
artistic developments

5. Entertainment

Explanation: Over the twentieth century, as cities increased in size, wealth,


and population, more museums developed. These were shaped by the public
response to education and entertainment. Greater funding was directed
towards the development of modern museums.

6. E - Interesting
Explanation: Attitudes toward museums have become more favorable as
people no longer view them as boring, cold places.

7. C - Information

Explanation: the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, use technology


that allows visitors to see the objects, hear or read about the collection on
their smartphones by scanning the artwork.

8. B - Communication

Explanation: the National Museum of African Art has the Artists in Dialogue
2 app, which allows for visual calls and responses that cut across physical
and political borders. The app facilitates a guided tour of the museum with
the curator virtually, ... the user can even communicate with active groups of
the museum on social media.

9. F - Complementing

Explanation: …technology is enhancing and not replacing the brick and


mortar museums ...

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