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Museum means an organization that stores objects of both natural and cultural heritage, cares and provides necessary conservation supports required to objects in both display and storage and exhibits objects for the knowledge of common people. The word museum comes from the Greek mouseion, a temple of the Muses — in Greek mythology, goddesses of inspiration and learning and patrons of the ______.
arts
The International Council of Museums (ICOM): A museum is a non-profit making, permanent institution in the service of society and of its development, and open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits, for purposes of study, education and enjoyment, material evidence of people and their ______.
environment
The Museums Association (United Kingdom): A museum is an institution which collects, documents, preserves, exhibits and interprets material evidence and associated information for the public ______.
benefit
'Institution' implies a formalised establishment that has a long-term ______.
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'Collects' embraces all means of ______.
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'Documents' emphasises the need to maintain ______.
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'Interprets' is taken to cover such diverse fields as display, education, research and ______.
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'Material' indicates something that is tangible, while 'Evidence' guarantees its authenticity As the 'real ______'.
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'Associated information' represents the knowledge which prevents a museum object being merely a curio, and also includes all records relating to its past history, acquisition and subsequent ______.
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'For the public benefit' is deliberately open ended and is intended to reflect the current thinking, both within our profession and outside it, that museums are the servants of ______.
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The American Association of Museums (AAM) A non-profit permanent, established institution, not existing primarily for the purpose of conducting temporary exhibitions, exempt from federal and state income taxes, open to the public and administered in the public interest, for the purpose of conserving and preserving, studying, interpreting, assembling, and exhibiting to the public for its instruction and enjoyment objects and specimens of educational and cultural value, including artistic, scientific, historical and technological ______.
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Sample museums in Ethiopia Contrary to the country’s heritage potential, museums in Ethiopia are very few in number. Many of the museums of the country are found in Addis Ababa and the well-known are ______ following.
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