What are the functions of museums?

Readers of New Curator will know that Pete recently asked people to contribute their definitions of the function of museums. The result was a 'cloud' of key words. Among them:

provide
present
educate
inspire
make
people
preservation


objects
access
interpretation
knowledge
history


- didn't feature nearly so prominently as one would imagine. Well worth a more detailed analysis than I can do it justice.

And, should that sort of thing float your boat, you can purchase merchandise featuring the word cloud. What better way to display your inner museum geek to the rest of the world?!

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