Museum Types, Museum Classification, Standards for Museum Classification, Museum Collection, Scope of Collecting, Science Museums, Natural History Museums, Eco-museums

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Damietta University (EGYPT)

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 This paper aims to introduce a clear criteria and standards for museum classification. With a full understanding of the historical development of museums, it aims to identify the ethical standards for classification. The paper set solutions to solve the matter of museum classification and the mixing between several types that might face museums specialists, , and scholars. Since many museums have formed their mission and the scope of their acquisition in connection with the reasons for their historical origin, the interests of those in charge of the acquisition, and many other factors, which met in formulating their tasks and their current image. In addition, specialized sources usually refer to the types of museums without referring to the criteria on which they were classified. It also did not provide a complete picture of the classification methodology and criteria. As well as the common use of some non-standard or imprecise classifications. Accordingly, the first problem that the study discusses is the absence of specialized studies in the classification of museums, and the lack of adopting the application of standard criteria for classification. Second, trying to exclude classifications that are based on non-standard criteria that cause great confusion. Third, justifying and codifying the overlap between some museums affected by the historical development of the museum, and in the absence of rules obligating the museum to adopt a specific classification.

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    المواقع الإلکترونية:

    Abās ʿAbd, ʿIlm al-matāḥif al-ḥadīṯ, 1st ed., Dār al-Saǧī liʾl-ṭibāʿa waʾl-našr, Baghdad, 2019.

     

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