what is the oldest museum in the world?

Answer 1

The Ashmolean (opened 1683) is the oldest museum still in existence. Much of it's collection actually came from an earlier museum, Tradescant's Ark, which was willed to Elias Ashmole on Tradescant's death and then, through him, installed as the University of Oxford's museum.

Of course, both Ashmole and Tradescant's collections came from the broader phenomenan of "wunderkammers" or cabinets of curiosities. These were natural history collections which would contain such diverse collections as paintings, ancient sculpture, taxidermied animals, plant specimens, rocks and minerals, and supposed mythological finds such as dragon blood and unicorn hairs. These early museums were usually the domain of a private collector - who could be seen as the precursor of the modern curator - and the collections could be open or closed to the public according to the wishes of that collector. The Studiolo at the Met Museum in NYC is the type of room that a collector might have used to study his artifacts during the Renaissance (the link below provides history and a zoomable series of photos for a closer look at this room). So, while many of these collections were absorbed into larger collections or have disappeared, the Ashmolean was not the first museum, just the oldest to have survived to us today.

Also, keep in mind that the word "museum" derives from the Greek "mouseion" or temple of the muses, and in ancient Greece and Rome, musuems were temples of the muses where art was displayed publically in order to inspire people.

Answer 2

The Capitoline Museums open to the known public in 1734 below Clement XII, the Capitoline Museums are seen the 1st museum interior the international, understood as a place the place paintings must be enjoyed with the help of all and not in basic terms with the help of the proprietors.

Answer 3

According to Guiness BoR, the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, England, built in 1679.

Though it depends on how you define museum. There are many things that might or might not be museums. Are archeological sites like Pompeii museums? Are cave paintings museums, they're intended as records of culture, the 'Museum of tigers we caught today'.

Answer 4

ur standing on it
THe world is a museum of so much think in a few some things in the world today could be gone
enjoy it while u can

Answer 5

That would be the library of Alexandria that the Roman destroyed....................................................... And destroying that library was one of this worlds most criminal act.....................