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DAY 6

ART FROM THE INSIDE OUT

Cabinet of Curiosity

THE ORIGIN OF THE MODERN MUSEUM

Everyone has been to a museum of some sort: natural history, science, fine art, tourist traps, or halls of fame. The museum, which gets its name from the Greek word mouseion, meaning “seat of the Muses,” originated as a place to discuss philosophy, mathematics, science, and politics. European museums of the 17^th century developed into fancy houses devoted to collecting and categorizing noblemen’s scientific curiosities, from fossilized teeth and bones to cultural oddities collected during the explorations of the Age of Enlightenment.

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