Wherein we ask researchers, curators, scientists, docents, and visitors alike how they would define a museum. What's your definition?! Let us know in the comments below! Thank you to everyone...
========== My name is Emily Graslieand I've got one question, and one question only.And that is:What is a museum?What is a museum?It's a place where they have lots of things.A museum is a place where the past lives.It's a place you can go on the weekend and you can have funlooking over things that are older than you are, and, uh, learn something.It's a place where you learn science!I would consider a museum kind of a place to educate yourself on many different topics.I think a museum is a collection of artifacts and specimens that people can use, um, from around the world.And it's not just that they're here and they're, like, these dead, idle objects,it's that they're important for uh, current research and f...