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“A museum is a non-profit, permanent institution in the service of society and its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits the tangible and intangible heritage of humanity and its environment for the purposes of education, study and enjoyment.” A definition from ICOM (International Council Of Museums).

Therefore, a museum is a place where we can go admire works of art, cultural objects and many other kinds of things, depending on the kind of museum you are visiting: art, natural history or science museum (among many others).

Basically, museums show exhibits (permanent or temporary ones) that gather one artist's work for instance, or skeletons of dinosaurs from the same time period. Though museums often have this bad reputation among children, they now tend to be more interactive as to fit the children's inventiveness and their keen interest in conducting experiments.

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Today, you can even go online look at virtual museums. Some of them are real museums provided with a web possibility to watch virtually the exhibits, whereas some others are only virtual and do not physically exist.

Many museums are historical buildings, like the most famous museum in Paris: Le Louvre, which was one of the past French kings' second residence (François 1st and Louis XIV). This museum is the largest one of the world with 160, 106 m².

The world largest museum complex is the Smithsonian Institution, which gathers 19 museums, 9 research centers and a National Zoo !

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