history museums
Curated temporal collections
History museums are institutions that collect, preserve, and display artifacts and exhibits related to the past.
They range from broad national museums covering centuries of a country's development to specialized ones focused on particular eras, events, or themes: The history museum had an entire wing devoted to the Civil War.
Unlike art museums, the emphasis falls on historical significance rather than aesthetic merit.
- ancient coinsCurrency from past eras
- antique furnitureOld collectible home furnishings
- velvet ropesFabric barriers for crowds
- ancient civilizationsSocieties of the distant past
- docentsTrained museum interpreters
colonial heritage · founding fathers · national archives · traveling exhibitions · curators · Renaissance art · oral histories · historical reenactments · social movements · preservation · prehistoric tools · storytelling sessions · time capsule · online databases · community workshops · field trips · medieval artifacts · collections
- city culturecity museums, exhibition halls, heritage centers, art galleries
- museum typesheritage centers, science museums, art galleries, cultural centers
- museumsmuseums, art museums, exhibits, galleries, exhibitions
- cultural venuesconcert halls, art gallery, opera houses, arts center, art museums
- collective memorycollective memory, public memory, remembrance, commemoration, commemorations
history museumsart galleries
Spaces showcasing visual works
art museums · sculpture gardens · performance spaces · concert halls · science museums