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The document describes several types of museums and their purposes: - Economuseums focus on preserving traditional skills and craftsmanship through workshops and sales of locally made goods. They also provide educational materials about production processes. - National history museums present artifacts reflecting a nation's history, though some have been used for propaganda. They aim to depict a country in a positive light but must also portray negative periods. - Ecomuseums aim to enhance local communities' welfare and development by interpreting cultural heritage in a holistic way rather than focusing on objects. - Heritage centres and interpretation centres disseminate knowledge of natural and cultural heritage through hands-on exhibits and programs to enhance understanding, especially in rural areas without large traditional museums

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National History Museum

The document describes several types of museums and their purposes: - Economuseums focus on preserving traditional skills and craftsmanship through workshops and sales of locally made goods. They also provide educational materials about production processes. - National history museums present artifacts reflecting a nation's history, though some have been used for propaganda. They aim to depict a country in a positive light but must also portray negative periods. - Ecomuseums aim to enhance local communities' welfare and development by interpreting cultural heritage in a holistic way rather than focusing on objects. - Heritage centres and interpretation centres disseminate knowledge of natural and cultural heritage through hands-on exhibits and programs to enhance understanding, especially in rural areas without large traditional museums

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Economuseum

Implementing small-scale production of goods in a workshop environment focusing on


the preservation and perpetuation of traditional skills and craftsmanship.
Museums tend to provide the visiting public with information on techniques, skills, and
production processes. In addition to products for sale, all economuseums have developed
educational information material: historic product exhibits, present-day production samples
and archive material.
Justification - to promote the products of local craftspeople, create employment and in the
end, promote immaterial, cultural heritage.

National History Museum


A museum dedicated to presenting artifacts and exhibits reflecting the history of a
particular nation, usually its home country. It can be focused on natural history and art,
respectively, and not necessarily on subjects related to the history of any nation. It may not
just to store artifacts of aesthetic or educational value, but to portray the country itself in a
positive light.
Historically, some national history museums have been used purely as propaganda tools
through which governments attempt to convey an official history. For example, "the Nazi
regime employed the museum as a deliberate tool of propaganda and 'public education'. It has
further been argued that "the very idea of an officially sponsored national history museum is
simply outdated" in light of the trend towards pluralistic interpretation of artifacts. On the
other hand, it has been argued that: "To create a national history museum that discards unitary
national narratives as well as causal trajectories (the teleology of the nation)—in effect to
subvert the form—is probably impossible". One concern of national history museums,
therefore, is how to fairly and neutrally depict negative periods in a nation's own history.
Justification – make use the strong historical heritage from the site

Ecomuseum
A museum aiming to enhance the welfare and development of local communities. It refers
especially to a new idea of holistic interpretation of cultural heritage, in opposition to the focus
on specific items and objects, performed by traditional museums.

Heritage centre
A museum facility primarily dedicated to the presentation of historical and cultural information
about a place and its people, including, to some degree, natural features. Heritage centres
typically differ from most traditional museums in usually featuring a high proportion of "hands-
on" exhibits and live or lifelike specimens and practical artifacts.

Interpretation centre
An institution for dissemination of knowledge of natural or cultural heritage. Interpretation
centres are a kind of new-style museum, often associated with visitor centres or ecomuseums,
and located in connection to cultural, historic or natural sites.
Interpretation centres use different means of communication to enhance the understanding
of heritage. To aid and stimulate the discovery process and the visitor's intellectual and
emotional connection to heritage, the main presentation strategy tends to be user-friendly and
interactive, and often use scenographic exhibitions and multimedia programs. Many
interpretation centres have temporary exhibitions related to a specific aspect of the site.
An interpretation centre can be a viable solution for effective communication of heritage
information in municipalities and rural areas where resources may not exist to establish a
traditional, full-scale museum, and where heritage can be an important factor for tourism
development.
Unlike traditional museums, interpretation centres do not usually aim to collect, conserve and
study objects; they are specialized institutions for communicating the significance and meaning
of heritage. They work to educate and raise awareness. Non-core jobs
as conservation and research are services usually done by specialized, external entities.
Local museum
A museum that covers local history. Its collection normally includes objects with a local
connection of some sort.

Folk museum
A museum that deals with folk culture and heritage. Such museums cover local life in rural
communities. A folk museum typically displays historical objects that were used as part of the
people's everyday lives. Examples of such objects include clothes and tools. Many folk
museums are also open-air museums and some cover rural history.

University museum
A repository of collections run by a university, typically founded to aid teaching and research
within the institution of higher learning. The university museums not only continue to play
important role in object-based learning but also perform important civic and cultural functions
for the larger society.
Organizationally, university museums are represented by a variety of historical, traditional and
novel entities, such as anatomical theaters and archeology museums, natural science and art
museums, history museums, planetariums, arboretums and aquariums, archives and house-
museums, science and arts centers, ecomuseums, hospital museums, and contemporary art
galleries, as well as discipline-specific collections hosted by academic departments and
institutes; some special collections are hosted by the university libraries. In general, university
museums and collections are classified based on disciplinary criteria or the nature of the
artifacts.
Justification – lack of educational facilities for primary, secondary school. Absence of higher
educational such as university or college around the site. University museum may shoulder up
an important role in object-based learning to help audiences as well as local students, by
performing leisure and learning function, developing their visual literacy, critical thinking,
creative skills blablalala.

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