museums and wikipedia

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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