Download - Museums and Wikipedia
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A common path
L. Shyamal2014
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Private collections of the wealthy
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Ole Worm (1588-1654)
Cabinet of curiosities
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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
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Colonialism and rapid growth
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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
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Openness and participation
Note: Copyrighted book covers used for purpose of commentary/review (under a fair use clause)
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Diderot suggested a national museum for France in the ninth volume of the Encyclopédie (1765)
The Encylopaedia and the Museum
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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
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Edward Balfour (1813-1889)
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Two museums, a zoo, a library and an encyclopaedia!
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Crowdsourced and “free”
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Technology - the Internet
AccessibilityImagesContentInteractive exhibitsMultimediaParticipationReuseResearchLearningCreativity Synthesis
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From control to freedom
Copyrighted - all rights reserved
Public Domain - no restrictions
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