APPLIED SCIENCES &
PROFESSIONS
MUSEUM
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MEANING OF MUSEUM:
Museum is a place where
artworks are stored and kept for historical purposes.
TYPES OF MUSEUM
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General Artifact
Museum
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War Museum
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Historical Museum
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Nature/Fossil Museum
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Invention of Museum
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Aquatic of Museum
Explanation
1. General Artifact
Museum: this is a museum that contains all forms of art works in
types and materials e.g. paintings ceramics, sculptures, metal works etc.
2. War museum: this type of museum
contains war materials, weapons and machines e.g. gun, explosive dynamites,
machine gun, hamoured cars, war plane and helicopter, micro camera, knives,
arrows etc.
3. Historical museum: this a museum that
contains things and images of the historical events e.g. hero and heroines
status, achievement and things.
4. Nature/fossil
museum: this contains bones, skeletons, of the animals and
flowers from nature.
5. Inventions museum: this
type of museum contains both finished and unfinished works of inventors.
6. Aquatic museum: this
type of museum deals with things and lives seen under the water or ocean e.g.
fishes, sharks, star fish, seashells etc.
Importance of Museum
·
it preserves
cultural heritage
·
it preserves history
·
it’s an institute
for research
·
it preserves
country’s artifacts
·
it updates people on
art trends
LOCATIONS OF NIGERIAN MUSEUM
1.
General Artifact Museum:
·
Jos
·
Lagos
·
Ife
·
War Museum
·
Umuahia
2.
National Museum:
·
awolowo Road Lagos
Island
3.
Orion Museum :
·
Orion, Nigeria
4.
Benin Museum :
·
King’s Square, Benin
City
5.
Gidan Makama:
·
Emir’s Palace Road
Kano
6.
Calabar Museum:
·
Court Road, Calabar
·
Esie Museum
Conclusion
A museum is a place where
historical things are stored without the museum we wouldn’t have know things
about how are forefathers live their lives and also how they do things.
