Ancient History
Renaissance and Early Modern
Arguments - What do...?
Definitions
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"Seat of the Muses"

What was the meaning of the Greek word, "Mouseion"?

100

Revolution

What forced the opening of the French Royal collections?

100

Accessibility

How do museums make things available to the public? 

100

Decontextualised

What is the word for something that is removed from its context?

100

Asteroid

What does the video suggest might hit the Earth?

200

Manuscripts

What was housed at the ancient museum of Alexandria?

200
The Medici's

Who amassed a huge collection before donating it to the Italian state?

200

Stewardship

How do museums keep artifacts safe?

200

Problematic

What is the word for something that is controversial or uncomfortable?

200

"Whatever kind of shape this is"

How does the narrator describe the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao?
300

Nabonidas

Which Babylonian king collected antiquities?

300

The 18th Century

When were many of Europe's national museums built?

300

Agency

What do museums give us over our history?

300

Classification

What is the word for categorising or defining an object?
300

The Parthenon Marbles

What is Greece suing the UK to get back?

400

Clay cylinders

What were the very first wall labels?

400

Salon style

How were the paintings hung in the Louvre in the 19th century?

400

Engagement

What do museums support and change to adapt to (according to the video)?

400

Provenance

What is the word for an artifact's history of ownership?

400

The Metropolitan Museum of Art (in New York)

Which museum is introducing a 'price-hike' in order to increase income?

500

Pinakothek

What building on the Acropolis housed paintings honouring the gods?

500

Wunderkammers

What was the name of the Dutch 'Cabinets of Curiosity'?

500

Recontextualisation

What do museums do to help us understand the lives of people in the past?

500

Juxtaposition

What is the word for putting two things side by side in order to contrast them?

500
"In each historical object, all times encounter one another, bifurcate, or even become entangled with each other"

What did philosopher Georges Didi-Huberman write about museums?