Introduction to Museum,Gallery and Heritage.

 

Museum



A museum is an institution that cares for (conserves) a collection of artifacts and other objects of scientific, artistic, cultural, or historical importance and makes them available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary. Most large museums are located in major cities throughout the world and more local ones exist in smaller cities, towns and even the countryside. Museums have varying aims, ranging from serving researchers and specialists to serving the general public. The continuing acceleration in the digitization of information, combined with the increasing capacity of digital information storage, is causing the traditional model of museums (i.e. as static “collections of collections” of three-dimensional specimens and artifacts) to expand to include virtual exhibits and high-resolution images of their collections for perusal, study, and exploration from any place with Internet.





Gallery



Gallery, is to collect, display, or sell art works.In the 16th century, the west will collected works of art on display in the palace of the cloisters, this is the origin of the gallery.Later, there are many similar Settings in the noble mansion.
In the 19th century, the gallery display refers to the audience appreciate the art works of public places, in the exhibition with gallery properties on the properties of basic same, may be smaller than art gallery, but more work or artistic genre.In addition, with the development of capital market economy to commercialize art trend to strengthen, to specialize in fine art for art dealer also arises at the historic moment.Art dealer place for display and sale of fine art, also known as gallery.

 

 

 

 

Heritage

On the concept of cultural heritage, is divided into tangible cultural heritage and intangible cultural heritage.Includes material cultural heritage and intangible cultural heritage.Material and cultural heritage is a cultural relics with historical, artistic and scientific value;Non-material cultural heritage refers to various kinds of in the form of the nonphysical is closely related to the life form, the traditional cultural patrimony.