Thursday 30 January 2014

The Purpose Of Museum Cabinets

By Eliza Mendoza


Museum Cabinets are presses where past items are kept. These lockers could either be made of wood or metal. Wooden ones are preferred to metallic ones because the metallic ones face the challenge of rusting. Wooden ones have the advantage of having some patterns inscribe on them to make them beautiful.The wood used could be from hard wood or soft wood trees. These lockers come in different sizes depending on the size of the items to be placed and their number as well.

Besides that, these lockers are classified into two. There are the public ones and the private ones. Public ones can be visited by all the citizen of the country. They are government owned. Private ones are owned by specific individuals. They are found in houses. Private ones tend to be smaller as compared to the public ones. The public ones are found in national buildings that have been constructed by the government. People, who visit these buildings in the name of seeing what has been preserved, have to pay a fee. The fee paid b the citizens is subsidized as compared to that paid by foreigners.

Governments may come up with them to preserve the culture of the citizens. Most countries have a diverse culture among their citizens. These cultures are important in the writing of history and hence need to be preserved. Some of the places however may be privately owned.

They may construct to remember events that happened in the past. For instance, people may come up with a locker and place the few things that were burnt in fire accident in their home. Such items remind them of their past.

These presses are used to conserve newly acquired or discovered items. These could be fossils that have been recently been excavated or found. These fossils are placed in these lockers and a continuous study is done on them. Documentation is done on any information they find. A copy of this documentation is left in the lockers for future reference.

Another motive could be for the purpose of study. Historians may have these boxes in their houses for the purpose of research. Fossils they get from discovery sites may be found in such closets. These fossils are studied in their houses in a bid to understand the process of evolution per say.

All these cupboards are well maintained . Otherwise; the items found in them are subject to getting destroyed. They therefore are maintained by some people. Often these people have been employed by the government to ensure the materials found in them are not damaged or stolen by people who come to view them.

Museum Cabinets are a key to the study of history in any country. It is in them that they hold the documents and items of great significance to a country. These documents could range from manuscripts, scrolls and stone tablets. A good number of countries have such places to display that which they pride themselves in.




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