Museum study ||Importance of museums || Local museums || Shi Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Museum || Town || Hall Museum Kolhapur || Shri Bhavani Museum and Library || Regional museums ||Raja Dinkar Kelkar || Museum || History Museum Aurangabad || Central Museum Nagpur || State and National Museums || Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Museum Mumbai || Salar Jung Museum Hyderabad || National Museum New || Delhi || International museums || The British Museum London || Shanghai Science and Technology Museum || Metropolitan Museum Network || Museum concept and definition || Museum functions || Collection policy || Storage of museum artifacts || Preservation and conservation techniques || Documentation of museum objects || Museum software for documentation
* Concept & definition of Museum :
A Museum is a non-profitable permanent institution in the Service of Society & its development open to the public which enquiries conserve, Research communicates & exhibit, the tangible & intangible heritage of humanity & its Environment for the purpose of education study & enjoyment.
A Museum is a permanent establishment administered in the general interest for the purpose of pressuring, studying, imparticular of exhibiting to the public for its delectation & instructive groups of objects & specimens of cultural value, Artistic historical, scientific & technological collection botanical & zoological garden & aquarium.
This is a comprehensive definition in the sense that it not only includes the various categories of museums but also those public libraries & archives which maintain a permanent exhibition room,
it likewise includes living objects like plant animals fish commonly those of as being in the collection.
* Functions of Museum :
1) Museum is a public service organisation & it deals mainly with objects its exhibition & visitor, it has some responsibility towards the object & Society & thus perform various activities on a regular basis.
2) Image & popularity of a museum depends on approaches, entertainment, amusement & facilities in addition to its contribution towards research & education
3) Here are the list below of various function of a museum which may vary from one Museum to another according to the nature of the collection.
1) Collection
2) Storage
3) Preservation & Conservation
4) Documentation
5) Research
1) Collection: Most important function of a museum is to collect objects of heritage since it is a custodian of the heritage of society or country. each museum authority adopts & publishes a written statement of its collection policy. Collection in a museum thus depends upon the mission, vision & objectives of the museum & also on the needs of research, education, conservation, and preservation of evidence of nature & cultural heritage. a museum must not collect anything i.e.theft, smuggled or very much fragile
2) Storage: Whatever a museum collects needs to store scientifically in well planned & secured area. it is an important function of all museums because only one-third of the collection is usually displayed, the rest two-third remains within the store, So the museum must have a good storage of its collection for the reserve collection separated for organic-inorganic objects, paintings, textiles, sculpture etc. it should be regularly supervised to keep clean control from humidity light effect past & other biochemical & natural hazards or disaster
3) Preservation & Conservation: object need regular care because every object is subject to deterioration due to spontaneous changes in the environment & subsequent physiochemical cool factor.,
So regular care is required in both display & storage, So museum practices and various preservation techniques are exclusive objects specific to protect them from attract of organisms like fungi, insects & rodents. & damage from humidity temperature light sources &. intensities.
4) Documentation: it is the process of preparing a record of collected objects by a formal entry in the entry register, discussion, collaging & indexing with photo images, it s considered one of the main administrative functions of any museum it is very important to document object with authentic information after necessary search & consultation.
if facilitated in knowing the provenance identification composition & necessary treatment of objects now various software of international standard is available to document museum objects digitally & to keep a record not for the museum itself but as an online resource to know about countries' possession
* Local Museum
* Shi Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Museum, Satara
* Town Hall Museum, Kolhapur
* Shri Bhavani Museum and Library, Aundh
* Reginal Museum
* Raja Dinkar Kelkar Museum, Pune
* History Museum, Aurangabad
* Central Museum, Nagpur
* State and National Museum
* Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Museum, Mumbai
* Salar Jung Museum, Hydrabad
* Nation Museum, New Dheli
* International Museum
* The British Museum, London
* Shanghai Science and Technology Museum, China
* Metropolitan Museum, Network
Local museum :
Local museum is a type of museum that shows the historical culture and biological development of a place using exhibit these museums that local museum usually maintain a collection of three-dimensional objects which are exhibited in this place local museum Aarav Open generally have a low budget for their running cost.