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🗓️ 23 August 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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0:00.0 | When you think about museums, what comes to mind? Maybe you think of expansive, |
0:09.1 | dramatically lit rooms full of pedestals displaying artifacts that are carefully preserved under glass cases. |
0:15.6 | Maybe you think of towering reconstructed dinosaur skeletons or interpretive scale replicas of |
0:20.9 | scenes from history. |
0:22.8 | Or maybe you think of Ben Stiller and Disney movies |
0:26.6 | where museum exhibits magically come to life after hours. |
0:29.8 | Oh, you're in trouble, dumb, |
0:32.3 | my dumb, want to talk. |
0:33.8 | But whatever comes to mind when you think of museums, |
0:36.8 | one things for certain. |
0:38.4 | They occupy a special and culturally significant space |
0:41.9 | in society. Museums serve not only. and culturally authoritative venues that promote knowledge and truth. Their cultural significance means that when museums |
0:54.5 | present artifacts as material evidence for natural and social history, those |
0:59.4 | artifacts represent scientifically valid conversations. |
1:03.0 | And those artifacts serve as evidence for ongoing scientific inquiries. |
1:08.0 | At least, that's what we'd hope. |
1:10.0 | But museums are culturally significant in other ways too. |
1:15.0 | Museums are meant to inspire awe and reflection. |
1:18.0 | They are designed, in fact, to provoke discussion |
1:21.0 | as well as invoke solemn contemplation. |
1:23.6 | Even the word museum comes from the word muse and it originally meant |
1:28.1 | seat of the muses which implies an almost spiritual significance. |
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