The last bit about the accessibility of museums is of importance. My educational institution was the former residence of the British Governor of Bombay Presidency. We hold heritage walks, free of costs, for those interested in the history of the monumental structure. Free tours of such structures encourage research and a public engagement that is much needed for society as a whole to navigate their pasts.
😂 Truthfully though, the ancient Greeks both collected and venerated the ruins and artifacts of the ancient Mycenaeans 1000 years before them whom they viewed as a much greater civilization than their own. Greek mythology and Homer’s epics like ‘The Iliad’ and ‘The Odyssey” depict both real and fictional moments from that much older age leading up to the Macedonian Empire of the 800’s B.C. And going back even further than that, even those ancient Mycenaeans, Phoenicians, Egyptians of 1,200 B.C., and later the Achaemenid empire (before Persia) and Assyrian (before Babylonian) believed the cultures that inhabited Mesopotamia 1,000 years before them such as the Akkadian Empire of the early 2,000’s B.C. were closer to astrological truths and the divine nature of the gods. If we trace the world’s oldest monotheistic religion, Zoroastrianism (which was the precursor to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam and have TREMENDOUS similarities to Zoroaster’s cosmology), we go all the way back to the ancient city-state civilization of Sumer back in 3,000-3,500 B.C. and beyond which in turn considered itself very modern in comparison to the small kingdoms that pre-dated even that. Pretty much everything after the invention of agriculture in 10,000 B.C. slowly allowed human culture to flourish and coalesce into tribes, then small settlements, and thanks to increased trade, towns, cities, kingdoms, and finally continent-ruling empires 6,000 years ago. Looking at mankind’s history through this lens really does make our history from the Renaissance to now seem insanely modern! Centuries really aren’t that long if we’re being totally honest; it’s just our lifespans are so pitifully short, we loose sight of the macro view of things on a millennial level. And even then, 6-7,000 years of human development in language and culture is nothing in comparison to the eons our planet, Earth has evolved from 4.5 BILLION years ago. The real kicker here however is that throughout almost the entirety of human civilizations, we’ve always felt we were worse off than the preceding generations. The ancient Assyrians believed they were living in the last days, and in 700 B.C., the Ancient Greek poet Hesiod wrote in his book “Works and Days” a sequence of metallic ages depicting the ages of man, but they are degradations rather than progressions. Each age has less of a moral value than the preceding one. Of his own age he says: "And I wish that I were not any part of the fifth generation of men, but had died before it came, or had been born afterward."
I live in the U.S. and my family pays for a yearly membership. It works for multiple museums across the nation and some zoos (we've used it in TN, NC, and FL). All we have to do is show our membership card at the gate and we're allowed on through without paying any extra. I think it's something in the range of $30-$50 annually.
Museums aren't free in my country Latvia, but they cost very little to enter! 1EUR, 2EUR, along those lines... I didn't even think that in US it might cost so much that someone can't get in... Also I didn't realise that in US museums aren't just public exhibition houses... They don't do any experiments or anything along those lines in our country... it's just exhibition, that's it!
Museums are not just for exhibition. Only a small part of some museums are while a much larger part is reserved for experiment. A museum has a lot more things than those that are publicly displayed.
Good point about ticket prices, I think museums should be free for everyone, adults included. Where I live in Aus generally only children are free. Sometimes the temporary exhibitions can be a bit expensive, and of course they're often the best ones.
many firsts were in Iraq ! its trully tragic what became of Iraq today ... a state of constant chaos ... the world has lots of ressons to do everything in their power to stop whats happening there and start digging for more History on that land
***** Baghdad in Iraq was build by the Islamic abbasid empire *Caliphate* and was the capital of the Islamic empire and the capital of all knowledge for hundred of years ! so Iraq has a big rule during the Islamic period which back then was quite admirable
good video... unfortunately, this time you missed some crucial steps (clearly in favour of institutions known in the US). for example the very first institution called museum, the 16th century "museo" by italian historian Giovanni Dosio, a building at lake como where he collected portraits of important men of history. Or the very first art museum open to the public, the Pinakothek in Munich. Also, the predominantly royal Wunderkammern started off in the late 15th century and became really big in the 16th century, so it's a bit misleading to cite an example of the 17th century, whilst leaving out the 16th century entirely.
Would be nice to also include, with a critical perspective, the history about how the collections were created, including the usually hidden colonial history.
كمتعلم للغة الانكليزية عندي سؤال أتمنى أن تقع عليه عين المترجم و الذي هو كالآتي : أخي الفاضل أظن أن الترجمة لهذه الجملة: " temples built for the Muses, the goddesses of the arts and the sciences هي : معابد بنيت من أجل الآلهة اليونانية التي هي آلهة الفنون و العلوم" و قد استندت في ذلك على الثقافة اليونانية فهل هذه الترجمة صحيحة؟؟ لأن الترجمة في الفيديو تقول أن Musesمعناها مفكرون و ليس آلهة
The Rijksmuseum, one of the worlds greatest museums and the home of Rembrandt and Vermeer and numerous other great artists, was opened in 1800, 40 years before 'the founder of museums' Burnum. America hur dur.
I feel like this is more of an American perspective? In the UK and I assume other countries Museums are free to enter? Also maybe its just my biased british learnings but I heard the first museum open to the public was Ashmolean Museum, yet theres no mention of that here,
What an amazing period! We discovered extraordinary secrets on the tour, and it's like time travel so that you could see how Chinese people were doing 100 years ago. @
Thanks to the author of the channel for a very fascinating tour! When visiting another city or country, every educated person must visit a museum. Visiting museums is very useful and fascinating. A love for the "eternal" and "beautiful" is awakened in a person, the beginnings of greatness and respect for history are inculcated. It is impossible to turn the excursion into something banal, ordinary and boring. The person should be a comprehensively developed person, cultured, educated, critically and analytically thinking, with knowledge of foreign languages. It is the knowledge of a foreign language that opens wide prospects for a person to realize his/her creative potential, career and financial growth. I would like to recommend the practical training course by Yuriy Ivantsiv "Polyglot Notes. Practical tips for learning foreign language", where you can find lots of useful information how to learn a foreign language quickly. Learn a foreign language and realize your creative potential on an international scale! The international community needs creative ideas!
Talk about western ignorance, why no mention of colonialism and it's role post Renaissance era in the "development" of museums? This video needs a sequel
I think all museums should strive to be objective as possible. Present the facts in a neutral space so the viewer can learn. I don't like biased museums like the Creation Museum in Petersburg, KY. If you haven't heard of it, the museum skews scientific discoveries to conform to biblical interpretations.
"After almost a millennium of western ignorance." Still subscribing to that whole ~Dark Ages~ myth, huh. The only ignorance on display is that of the scriptwriter.
+Crosslight The Middle Ages (6th to 13th) is a period of intellectual darkness as the extinguishing of Rome. I am italian, and I saw with my eyes what the Middle ages did to the romans. Temples, Colosseums, completely pillaged, either destroyed or to steal the bronze and iron inside the columns, statues big as titans taken down, Italy divided in many small countries fighting each other, disease, pestilence and famine, genocides in name of a god... It was a period of ignorance! The Italian Renaissance, il Rinascimento, was brilliant though, but they only said a millenium after the fall of rome which was 476 bc. The term ignorance is referred as intellectual ignorance anyways. So if you can point a world changing discovery that was made in that period of time, go ahead and do it, i don't see many.
Museum are quite similar to a circus back then, though they had acts and such, people came for the novelty of an exotic animal of an unordinary person- museums were just scientific oddities not so mischievous different .
Sure most of the Museum history is from West. Because China, India and Japan etc didn't have any of those collections until White People civilized them.
????? some of the earliest recorded art is hand spraying.. hand prints left by spraying paint around the hand, its a complex process involving a bowl of pigment and a hollow tube... anyway, the vast majority of the hand prints where from females... like 75% female. these are placed all over, even alongside cave paintings of horses and other animals.
the thing i find most odd is your strange double standard. its narrow to assume just one gender invented something......... ....... and yet what has been done the majority of recorded history? but then the idea that only one gender did something becomes an issue only when females are getting credit for something? thats bullshit.
montork I am a female, I am not being sexist against women, or not giving credit where it is due. I just don't think it is necessary to attach art to any one gender.
If you are citzen of Britain or EU. When I came to visit Britain (im from Brasil) I had to pay to enter. Not complaining, I know that they need money to maintain the most beutifull artifacts that I saw but still, nothing is free
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The Gift Shop of Gift Shops will be the best sequel ever c:
Would the giftshop of giftshops be a place where you can buy an intire shop as a present?
Coen Van Noord maybe it sells tiny models of other gift shops
That would be too disappointing.
I mean, to Alison Jones
I couldn't find online store.
The last bit about the accessibility of museums is of importance. My educational institution was the former residence of the British Governor of Bombay Presidency. We hold heritage walks, free of costs, for those interested in the history of the monumental structure. Free tours of such structures encourage research and a public engagement that is much needed for society as a whole to navigate their pasts.
Well done TED animation explaining why we have museums.
Hope you improve
Cfcjyfcyurcyrcjyrdu5r
Love it
Love watching the Ted-Ed videos, they're so fun and the voice over are so good!
I was just going to say that.
Museums of ancient rome be like
“And here this vase from... well... yesterday”
😂
Truthfully though, the ancient Greeks both collected and venerated the ruins and artifacts of the ancient Mycenaeans 1000 years before them whom they viewed as a much greater civilization than their own. Greek mythology and Homer’s epics like ‘The Iliad’ and ‘The Odyssey” depict both real and fictional moments from that much older age leading up to the Macedonian Empire of the 800’s B.C.
And going back even further than that, even those ancient Mycenaeans, Phoenicians, Egyptians of 1,200 B.C., and later the Achaemenid empire (before Persia) and Assyrian (before Babylonian) believed the cultures that inhabited Mesopotamia 1,000 years before them such as the Akkadian Empire of the early 2,000’s B.C. were closer to astrological truths and the divine nature of the gods. If we trace the world’s oldest monotheistic religion, Zoroastrianism (which was the precursor to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam and have TREMENDOUS similarities to Zoroaster’s cosmology), we go all the way back to the ancient city-state civilization of Sumer back in 3,000-3,500 B.C. and beyond which in turn considered itself very modern in comparison to the small kingdoms that pre-dated even that. Pretty much everything after the invention of agriculture in 10,000 B.C. slowly allowed human culture to flourish and coalesce into tribes, then small settlements, and thanks to increased trade, towns, cities, kingdoms, and finally continent-ruling empires 6,000 years ago. Looking at mankind’s history through this lens really does make our history from the Renaissance to now seem insanely modern! Centuries really aren’t that long if we’re being totally honest; it’s just our lifespans are so pitifully short, we loose sight of the macro view of things on a millennial level. And even then, 6-7,000 years of human development in language and culture is nothing in comparison to the eons our planet, Earth has evolved from 4.5 BILLION years ago. The real kicker here however is that throughout almost the entirety of human civilizations, we’ve always felt we were worse off than the preceding generations. The ancient Assyrians believed they were living in the last days, and in 700 B.C., the Ancient Greek poet Hesiod wrote in his book “Works and Days” a sequence of metallic ages depicting the ages of man, but they are degradations rather than progressions. Each age has less of a moral value than the preceding one. Of his own age he says: "And I wish that I were not any part of the fifth generation of men, but had died before it came, or had been born afterward."
Next video: Why do we have gift shops?
hehe
+Tomeow To get the museum more money, even if the things the gift store sells have nothing to do with the museum.
There is the Internet but that also has the money issue as Internet access and computers are not free
super poop
👎👎👎
I love museums so this was fascinating to me!
Very good video, I always learn something while watching TED-ed. Thank you.
I remember that I always fell asleep when I went to a museum(held by school) or I visited the restaurants or cafes beside those museums😄
It's weird, in the UK almost all museums are free, I didn't realise you had to pay in the US. Do you have to pay for all of them?
I am yet to see a museum with free admission
Only the bad ones cost money.
I live in the U.S. and my family pays for a yearly membership. It works for multiple museums across the nation and some zoos (we've used it in TN, NC, and FL). All we have to do is show our membership card at the gate and we're allowed on through without paying any extra. I think it's something in the range of $30-$50 annually.
They are FREE in Australia too.
The payments for such things are probably made through taxes. If the gov't owns them, the people pay for it, but not directly.
"GIFT SHOP OF GIFTSHOPS" DINGIT... I ACTUALLY LAUGHED AT THAT TERRIBLE JOKE. X'D
Then sans came to be.
TanTinTon Me too!
i dont get it lol
Museums aren't free in my country Latvia, but they cost very little to enter! 1EUR, 2EUR, along those lines... I didn't even think that in US it might cost so much that someone can't get in...
Also I didn't realise that in US museums aren't just public exhibition houses... They don't do any experiments or anything along those lines in our country... it's just exhibition, that's it!
Museums are not just for exhibition. Only a small part of some museums are while a much larger part is reserved for experiment. A museum has a lot more things than those that are publicly displayed.
"Just step into the wardrobe here. There you go. And we'll tour...NARNIA."
We watched this in class today, awesome
The gift shop of gift shops will cost a lot of money to enter. It has many gift shops in it. LOL
My favourite museum is the Story Museum in Oxford, it's great fun and I loved it when I was younger.
I don't really know why but I would love to hear whoever does the narrations for these videos to do audio books
Did any. One else think the part when the guy is walking through with the kids looked like the foster home for imaginary friends?
Warriorwyatt10 0 yes me too! I thought I was the only one!
Immediately I thought that
SAME
P.T. Barnum. Wow. This was actually in "The Greatest Showman". Wow wow
this is incredible. btw i noticed in your videos sometimes the bg music is too high, it affects the voice over.
Great 👍 Ted ED!
these lessons are great
that had some great history
Very nice 👍👍👍👍👍
Good point about ticket prices, I think museums should be free for everyone, adults included. Where I live in Aus generally only children are free. Sometimes the temporary exhibitions can be a bit expensive, and of course they're often the best ones.
3:48 Is this where The Greatest Showman took inspiration with?
very nice video.
This video makes me want to visit a museum 😂
Amazing
many firsts were in Iraq ! its trully tragic what became of Iraq today ... a state of constant chaos ... the world has lots of ressons to do everything in their power to stop whats happening there and start digging for more History on that land
It was Persia, after all.
***** suadi arabia was the birthplace of Islam and not Iraq :)
***** Baghdad in Iraq was build by the Islamic abbasid empire *Caliphate* and was the capital of the Islamic empire and the capital of all knowledge for hundred of years ! so Iraq has a big rule during the Islamic period which back then was quite admirable
sara meachel 'Capital of all knowledge', I wouldn't agree to that.
***** and for the huns that catholiscm survived
Shocking lack of mention of musuems in the UK - Victoria & Albert or the Sir John Soane
very well explained.
Have you ever visited the store of stores or resteraunt of resteraunts?
lol
No mention of the Ashmolean?
good video... unfortunately, this time you missed some crucial steps (clearly in favour of institutions known in the US). for example the very first institution called museum, the 16th century "museo" by italian historian Giovanni Dosio, a building at lake como where he collected portraits of important men of history. Or the very first art museum open to the public, the Pinakothek in Munich. Also, the predominantly royal Wunderkammern started off in the late 15th century and became really big in the 16th century, so it's a bit misleading to cite an example of the 17th century, whilst leaving out the 16th century entirely.
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Museum - Greek word - Muse collection of our ancient material preserve to showcase to the people 👍👍👍👍👍👍
I got that foster's house of imaginary friend's reference! :D
Is series mein next video daliye please
Please refer musicology books museum books
Would be nice to also include, with a critical perspective, the history about how the collections were created, including the usually hidden colonial history.
Why does there need to be a ‘price of entry’ discussion at the end?
This is great to know
كمتعلم للغة الانكليزية عندي سؤال أتمنى أن تقع عليه عين المترجم و الذي هو كالآتي : أخي الفاضل أظن أن الترجمة لهذه الجملة: " temples built for the Muses, the goddesses of the arts and the sciences
هي : معابد بنيت من أجل الآلهة اليونانية التي هي آلهة الفنون و العلوم" و قد استندت في ذلك على الثقافة اليونانية فهل هذه الترجمة صحيحة؟؟ لأن الترجمة في الفيديو تقول أن Musesمعناها مفكرون و ليس آلهة
In my research, I noticed most Lincoln museums were closely related to the Dime Museum tradition.
museums are a part of society,
@ 2:20 , speaking of western ignorance, where is the Black Sea on the map behind he tour guide?
I love Addison Anderson's voice!
did they mention any european museum beyond the seconds dedicated to the Louvre?
In the uk museums (or at least most) are free to enter.
My mam is showing this to me , thanks for making me sad
The Rijksmuseum, one of the worlds greatest museums and the home of Rembrandt and Vermeer and numerous other great artists, was opened in 1800, 40 years before 'the founder of museums' Burnum. America hur dur.
It's after!
You could have mention that in Germany after a old law all museums which aren't founded by a privat person are free to visit on sundays.
museums are the best
I feel like this is more of an American perspective? In the UK and I assume other countries Museums are free to enter? Also maybe its just my biased british learnings but I heard the first museum open to the public was Ashmolean Museum, yet theres no mention of that here,
What an amazing period! We discovered extraordinary secrets on the tour, and it's like time travel so that you could see how Chinese people were doing 100 years ago. @
I remembered the ticket charged for entering du louvre is quite expensive
Thanks to the author of the channel for a very fascinating tour! When visiting another city or country, every educated person must visit a museum. Visiting museums is very useful and fascinating. A love for the "eternal" and "beautiful" is awakened in a person, the beginnings of greatness and respect for history are inculcated. It is impossible to turn the excursion into something banal, ordinary and boring. The person should be a comprehensively developed person, cultured, educated, critically and analytically thinking, with knowledge of foreign languages. It is the knowledge of a foreign language that opens wide prospects for a person to realize his/her creative potential, career and financial growth. I would like to recommend the practical training course by Yuriy Ivantsiv "Polyglot Notes. Practical tips for learning foreign language", where you can find lots of useful information how to learn a foreign language quickly. Learn a foreign language and realize your creative potential on an international scale! The international community needs creative ideas!
sid Meier's civilization V background soundtrack. did I heard it right?
I love it!!!!
i not like
In méxico almost all museums are free 1 day per week, others are free all the time. :)
Yes, you pay for admission in the US but you get to see the best.
museums of museums of museums of museums of museums.
Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends... anyone?
the gift shop of gift shops :)
Is anyone else reminded of fosters home for imaginary friends intro?
YES THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT I WAS THINKING
all museums should be free for everyone, and be funded by the government, by the tax payers money. just like schools, hospitals and libraries.
"she must of had interesting parties." /wink
..... hrrmmmm
ikr
A Museum is like humanity's resume'. If aliens ever visit us and want to know everything about us and Earth we take them to a Museum.
hey, the link to TED lesson is broken :-(
Talk about western ignorance, why no mention of colonialism and it's role post Renaissance era in the "development" of museums? This video needs a sequel
Wasn't the first museum open to the public the Musei Capitolini opened to the public in 1734 by Pope Clemems XII?
4:56 Actually, it's the modern age.
The front of the museum looked a bit like the Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends building.
+1 culture
Isn't the plural of museum "musea"?
you mean the museum age factorial
yeah, i did it again
pq o video é ingês e o titulo portugues?
People here from school!/ ms saad
Come in here~~~\/
museum is the second choice when you failed at the bank
US=>35000 museums
Rest of the world= about 20500 museums
This is weird
the first museum was created in 530 B.C in what is now Iraq ✌✌
I think all museums should strive to be objective as possible. Present the facts in a neutral space so the viewer can learn.
I don't like biased museums like the Creation Museum in Petersburg, KY. If you haven't heard of it, the museum skews scientific discoveries to conform to biblical interpretations.
Da fuck
Is it only in the U.K. Where museums are free for all.
the gift shop of gift shops doesnt sell gift shops does it? because that would be excessively dumb
i want someone to build this, and have your voice as an audio tour, :3, also interesting what gitftshop of giftshop sells,
probably gift shops.. but what do THOSE gift shops sell?
The problem with museums is that they are to far apart
i have to take a train to go to a museum o natural history wich realy bums me out
Would the catholic monasteries be considered museums because of their vast recordings of literature?
I believe a vast collection of literature is usually described with the word 'library'-
The Louvre is actually free for people demanding asylum in France.
So THAT'S what Addison looks like... ;)
"After almost a millennium of western ignorance."
Still subscribing to that whole ~Dark Ages~ myth, huh. The only ignorance on display is that of the scriptwriter.
+Crosslight They obviously have never been to the vatican museums...
+Crosslight The Middle Ages (6th to 13th) is a period of intellectual darkness as the extinguishing of Rome. I am italian, and I saw with my eyes what the Middle ages did to the romans. Temples, Colosseums, completely pillaged, either destroyed or to steal the bronze and iron inside the columns, statues big as titans taken down, Italy divided in many small countries fighting each other, disease, pestilence and famine, genocides in name of a god... It was a period of ignorance!
The Italian Renaissance, il Rinascimento, was brilliant though, but they only said a millenium after the fall of rome which was 476 bc.
The term ignorance is referred as intellectual ignorance anyways. So if you can point a world changing discovery that was made in that period of time, go ahead and do it, i don't see many.
Lehy I invite you to check the "dark ages" video from this channel, as well, some of the most important philosophers of the time.
So Museums belong in museums? *Mind blown*
I don't think that museums have anything to do with the circus.
Barnum is he there or not Barnum. in fact and in essence
Museum are quite similar to a circus back then, though they had acts and such, people came for the novelty of an exotic animal of an unordinary person- museums were just scientific oddities not so mischievous different .
clay labels.
claybels
I thought it was cause we researched archeology
Sure most of the Museum history is from West. Because China, India and Japan etc didn't have any of those collections until White People civilized them.
women invented museums.
but then women invented sewing, textile arts, cooking,.. art.
montork I don't think women invented art. That's a very narrow view of the world to assume just one gender invented art.
????? some of the earliest recorded art is hand spraying.. hand prints left by spraying paint around the hand, its a complex process involving a bowl of pigment and a hollow tube... anyway, the vast majority of the hand prints where from females... like 75% female. these are placed all over, even alongside cave paintings of horses and other animals.
the thing i find most odd is your strange double standard. its narrow to assume just one gender invented something.........
....... and yet what has been done the majority of recorded history?
but then the idea that only one gender did something becomes an issue only when females are getting credit for something?
thats bullshit.
montork I am a female, I am not being sexist against women, or not giving credit where it is due. I just don't think it is necessary to attach art to any one gender.
it's not. but people are more then happy to do it.
and now google make it digital! #google_art_project
British museums are free
If you are citzen of Britain or EU. When I came to visit Britain (im from Brasil) I had to pay to enter. Not complaining, I know that they need money to maintain the most beutifull artifacts that I saw but still, nothing is free
HaiLsKuNkY yeah cuz your taxes pay for it. Funny how it feels like it's free, isn't it? Not that it's wrong it's just that nothing is ever free.
its free you must have paid for the tour or something www.visitlondon.com/things-to-do/place/285709-british-museum#bDrSfz5EOaQomWHS.97
its not state owned its a limited company. no taxes pay for it. ""The British Museum Company Limited ""
and then the internet came
sad bit true