 "A
museum is an institution that
cares for a
collection of artifacts and other
objects of
scientific,
artistic,
cultural, or
historical importance and makes them
available for public viewing through
exhibits that may be permanent or
temporary. Most large museums are
located in major cities throughout the
world and more local ones exist in
smaller cities, towns and even the
countryside. The continuing acceleration
in the
digitization of information,
combined with the increasing capacity of
digital information storage, is
causing the traditional model of museums
(i.e. as static “collections of
collections” of three-dimensional
specimens and artifacts) to expand to
include
virtual exhibits and high-resolution
images of their collections for perusal,
study, and exploration from any place
with Internet connectivity" Source
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