INTRODUCTION TO MUSEUM AND GALLERY

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Introduction to Museum and Gallery

Museum

The museum is a national, state or private owned institution dedicated to the collection, preservation, promotion, documentation, exhibition and understanding of culture and history. Through research, museums share details of treasures collected as an instrument of knowledge. It is a public space where education and research are conducted for the good and benefit of society. The museum is made up of various exhibition selections and otherwise known as galleries, libraries, stores, research and laboratory administrative offices. Run by an appointed director with the aid of a board of director and trustees. Among the care-staff include curator (s) librarian, research personnel, security.

Impacts and functions of a museum

1. It represents the memories of cities, regions and countries.
2. It signifies collections values as it is to be likened to a treasure chest containing objects and document of local, regional, national and internationally.
3. They represent our shared history and core identity.
4. It represents a rich blend of generation, cultures, religions, science, an opinion, thus representing an image of society in the past present and future.
5. It holds the platform of a learning environment for all.
6. They are carefully and systematically packaged to exhibit objects and tell stories.
7. It stimulates cultural citizenship and talent as it encourages and signifies experimentation and creativity on the visitors through inspiring exposures neither from interactive sessions or new and old forms of presentation.
8. It comments on the time we live in, showing the social relationship and playing them in context with the past.
9. The museum is an ideal platform for communication and debate over current issues with a context, among various groups in the society.
10. It plays direct and indirect roles in employment.

• Curator:

It is gotten from the Latin word “curare” meaning “to take care” is a term referring to the manager, keeper or custodian of an art or cultural heritage institution like gallery, museum, library. The curator is a content specialist charged with the responsibility of showcasing and interpreting the institution’s art collections along with other heritage materials.

Art gallery

It is an institution, place or space where works of art are put on display and possible sales of the works are made. Unlike the museums, the art galleries exhibit artworks sorely on temporary duration at the scheduled understanding with the owner of the business.

Similarities between museums and art galleries

1. There are both places to go, see and experience works of arts.
2. In museums like seen in the gallery, artworks are primarily viewed in a vast spread, clean rooms, holding the artworks on display
3. They are both regulated with minimal distraction and control lighting to exhibit and showcase works of art
4. Both possess a specifically created aesthetic ambience and environment.

Differences between an art gallery and a museum

1. In the daily operation of an art gallery and a museum, galleries do not charge a fee for admission as they anticipate to make money from sales of artworks on display while museums often charge fees.
2. An art gallery is a small exhibition that is in the operation of exhibiting and selling artworks, while a museum in most cases preserve works of art for history and documentation of effective policy change in development and does not sell the artworks.
   

3. A museum is a non-profit institution run by an appointed director with the aid of a board director and trustees. It may be privately owned or publicly owned while an art gallery is a profit-making institution.
4. Museums receive grants, donations, gifts and endowment and also publish annual reports.
5. A museum does not primarily sell artworks in its collection, but when the need arises, maybe for the sake of raising more funds to acquire a new set of artworks, or if certain works of art no longer fit within the museum mission, then the museum engages in the sales of specified artworks which is referred to as deaccession.

 

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