The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to museums:

A museum ( /mjuːˈziːəm/ mew-ZEE-əm) is an institution dedicated to displaying and/or preserving culturally significant objects. Many museums have exhibitions of these objects on public display, and some have private collections that are used by researchers and specialists. Compared to a library, a museum hosts a much wider range of objects and usually focus around a specific theme such as the arts, science, natural history, local history, and other topics. Public museums that host exhibitions and interactive demonstrations are often considered to be tourist attractions, and many museums attract large numbers of visitors from outside their host country, with the most visited museums in the world regularly attracting millions of visitors annually.

What type of thing are museums?

Museums can be described as all of the following:

Types of museums

• Archaeology museum
• Art museum
• Artillery museum
• Automotive museum
• Aviation museum
• Biographical museum
• Botanical garden
• Ceramics museum
• Children's museum
• Community museum
• Computer museum
• Creationist museum
• Diocesan museum
• Design museum
• Ethnographic Museum
• Farm museum

• Fashion museum

• Fire museum
• Folk museum

• Food museum

• Green museum

• Hair museum
• Historic house museum
• History museum
• Holocaust museum
• Jewish museum
• Lighthouse museum
• Living museum
• Local museum

• Japanese museums
• Maritime museum
• Medical museum

• Migration museum

• Mobile museum
• National museum
• Natural history museum
• Open-air museum
• Palace museum
• Peace museum

• Postal museum

• Prefectural museum

• Private museum

• Regimental museum
• Science museum

• Technology museum
• Teddy bear museum
• Textile museum

• Torture museum
• Toy museum
• Transport museum
• University museum
• Virtual museum

• Wax museum
• Zoo

History of museums

History of museums

• Dime museum

Persons influential in museums

See also

• List of museums

References

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