Why do we have museums? - J. V. Maranto

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Museums have been a part of human history for over 2,000 years -- but they weren't always like the ones we visit today. J. V. Maranto uncovers the evolution of museums, from the first museum in 530 BC (curated by a princess) to PT Barnum’s freak shows and beyond.
Lesson by J. V. Maranto, animation by Zedem Media.

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  • @noahfrench7412
    @noahfrench74129 жыл бұрын

    The Gift Shop of Gift Shops will be the best sequel ever c:

  • @coenvannoord4976

    @coenvannoord4976

    9 жыл бұрын

    Would the giftshop of giftshops be a place where you can buy an intire shop as a present?

  • @PhoebeTheFairy56

    @PhoebeTheFairy56

    6 жыл бұрын

    Coen Van Noord maybe it sells tiny models of other gift shops

  • @user-ry5xu9pz7n

    @user-ry5xu9pz7n

    6 жыл бұрын

    That would be too disappointing.

  • @user-ry5xu9pz7n

    @user-ry5xu9pz7n

    6 жыл бұрын

    I mean, to Alison Jones

  • @josefholzer2433

    @josefholzer2433

    3 жыл бұрын

    I couldn't find online store.

  • @pournima8096
    @pournima8096 Жыл бұрын

    The last bit about the accessibility of museums is of importance. My educational institution was the former residence of the British Governor of Bombay Presidency. We hold heritage walks, free of costs, for those interested in the history of the monumental structure. Free tours of such structures encourage research and a public engagement that is much needed for society as a whole to navigate their pasts.

  • @CraftedTomLion
    @CraftedTomLion9 жыл бұрын

    Next video: Why do we have gift shops? hehe

  • @MsSBVideos

    @MsSBVideos

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Tomeow To get the museum more money, even if the things the gift store sells have nothing to do with the museum.

  • @isaacbakan1295

    @isaacbakan1295

    7 жыл бұрын

    There is the Internet but that also has the money issue as Internet access and computers are not free

  • @ftnluizin3318

    @ftnluizin3318

    4 жыл бұрын

    super poop

  • @jjmaker6422

    @jjmaker6422

    3 жыл бұрын

    👎👎👎

  • @Webber-sr3xk
    @Webber-sr3xk3 жыл бұрын

    Museums of ancient rome be like “And here this vase from... well... yesterday”

  • @clintgolub1751

    @clintgolub1751

    2 жыл бұрын

    😂 Truthfully though, the ancient Greeks both collected and venerated the ruins and artifacts of the ancient Mycenaeans 1000 years before them whom they viewed as a much greater civilization than their own. Greek mythology and Homer’s epics like ‘The Iliad’ and ‘The Odyssey” depict both real and fictional moments from that much older age leading up to the Macedonian Empire of the 800’s B.C. And going back even further than that, even those ancient Mycenaeans, Phoenicians, Egyptians of 1,200 B.C., and later the Achaemenid empire (before Persia) and Assyrian (before Babylonian) believed the cultures that inhabited Mesopotamia 1,000 years before them such as the Akkadian Empire of the early 2,000’s B.C. were closer to astrological truths and the divine nature of the gods. If we trace the world’s oldest monotheistic religion, Zoroastrianism (which was the precursor to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam and have TREMENDOUS similarities to Zoroaster’s cosmology), we go all the way back to the ancient city-state civilization of Sumer back in 3,000-3,500 B.C. and beyond which in turn considered itself very modern in comparison to the small kingdoms that pre-dated even that. Pretty much everything after the invention of agriculture in 10,000 B.C. slowly allowed human culture to flourish and coalesce into tribes, then small settlements, and thanks to increased trade, towns, cities, kingdoms, and finally continent-ruling empires 6,000 years ago. Looking at mankind’s history through this lens really does make our history from the Renaissance to now seem insanely modern! Centuries really aren’t that long if we’re being totally honest; it’s just our lifespans are so pitifully short, we loose sight of the macro view of things on a millennial level. And even then, 6-7,000 years of human development in language and culture is nothing in comparison to the eons our planet, Earth has evolved from 4.5 BILLION years ago. The real kicker here however is that throughout almost the entirety of human civilizations, we’ve always felt we were worse off than the preceding generations. The ancient Assyrians believed they were living in the last days, and in 700 B.C., the Ancient Greek poet Hesiod wrote in his book “Works and Days” a sequence of metallic ages depicting the ages of man, but they are degradations rather than progressions. Each age has less of a moral value than the preceding one. Of his own age he says: "And I wish that I were not any part of the fifth generation of men, but had died before it came, or had been born afterward."

  • @BrainStuffShow
    @BrainStuffShow9 жыл бұрын

    Well done TED animation explaining why we have museums.

  • @ShibashishMahapatra

    @ShibashishMahapatra

    9 жыл бұрын

    Hope you improve

  • @jjmaker6422

    @jjmaker6422

    3 жыл бұрын

    Cfcjyfcyurcyrcjyrdu5r

  • @brinagirl9464

    @brinagirl9464

    3 жыл бұрын

    Love it

  • @merrymachiavelli2041
    @merrymachiavelli20419 жыл бұрын

    It's weird, in the UK almost all museums are free, I didn't realise you had to pay in the US. Do you have to pay for all of them?

  • @derekmaynard1767

    @derekmaynard1767

    9 жыл бұрын

    I am yet to see a museum with free admission

  • @MuddieRain

    @MuddieRain

    9 жыл бұрын

    Only the bad ones cost money.

  • @SaraNicole613

    @SaraNicole613

    9 жыл бұрын

    I live in the U.S. and my family pays for a yearly membership. It works for multiple museums across the nation and some zoos (we've used it in TN, NC, and FL). All we have to do is show our membership card at the gate and we're allowed on through without paying any extra. I think it's something in the range of $30-$50 annually.

  • @merciadragon9425

    @merciadragon9425

    9 жыл бұрын

    They are FREE in Australia too.

  • @brian7168342

    @brian7168342

    9 жыл бұрын

    The payments for such things are probably made through taxes. If the gov't owns them, the people pay for it, but not directly.

  • @localtriggerfan1998
    @localtriggerfan19987 жыл бұрын

    "Just step into the wardrobe here. There you go. And we'll tour...NARNIA."

  • @azipoor3468
    @azipoor34685 жыл бұрын

    I remember that I always fell asleep when I went to a museum(held by school) or I visited the restaurants or cafes beside those museums😄

  • @sindarinelf1
    @sindarinelf19 жыл бұрын

    Museums aren't free in my country Latvia, but they cost very little to enter! 1EUR, 2EUR, along those lines... I didn't even think that in US it might cost so much that someone can't get in... Also I didn't realise that in US museums aren't just public exhibition houses... They don't do any experiments or anything along those lines in our country... it's just exhibition, that's it!

  • @ShibashishMahapatra

    @ShibashishMahapatra

    9 жыл бұрын

    Museums are not just for exhibition. Only a small part of some museums are while a much larger part is reserved for experiment. A museum has a lot more things than those that are publicly displayed.

  • @kenbobca
    @kenbobca8 жыл бұрын

    Very good video, I always learn something while watching TED-ed. Thank you.

  • @28Superficial
    @28Superficial9 жыл бұрын

    Love watching the Ted-Ed videos, they're so fun and the voice over are so good!

  • @Aritul

    @Aritul

    Жыл бұрын

    I was just going to say that.

  • @Theodora111Theo
    @Theodora111Theo8 жыл бұрын

    "GIFT SHOP OF GIFTSHOPS" DINGIT... I ACTUALLY LAUGHED AT THAT TERRIBLE JOKE. X'D

  • @redstranger6772

    @redstranger6772

    7 жыл бұрын

    Then sans came to be.

  • @jessicaduvon565

    @jessicaduvon565

    7 жыл бұрын

    TanTinTon Me too!

  • @ntfrmhr

    @ntfrmhr

    5 жыл бұрын

    i dont get it lol

  • @TheRyanLamont
    @TheRyanLamont9 жыл бұрын

    I love museums so this was fascinating to me!

  • @fjmh3933
    @fjmh39333 жыл бұрын

    My favourite museum is the Story Museum in Oxford, it's great fun and I loved it when I was younger.

  • @lindseymiller5520
    @lindseymiller55202 жыл бұрын

    Love it!! Would love one focusing on art specifically

  • @Gears456123
    @Gears4561239 жыл бұрын

    We watched this in class today, awesome

  • @wyattwalker4866
    @wyattwalker48668 жыл бұрын

    Did any. One else think the part when the guy is walking through with the kids looked like the foster home for imaginary friends?

  • @cattidesjar4229

    @cattidesjar4229

    7 жыл бұрын

    Warriorwyatt10 0 yes me too! I thought I was the only one!

  • @joemedlen2924

    @joemedlen2924

    5 жыл бұрын

    Immediately I thought that

  • @dreamoftheendless7159

    @dreamoftheendless7159

    4 жыл бұрын

    SAME

  • @jupitired777
    @jupitired7775 жыл бұрын

    these lessons are great

  • @misssym769
    @misssym7696 жыл бұрын

    P.T. Barnum. Wow. This was actually in "The Greatest Showman". Wow wow

  • @kbinsobeih
    @kbinsobeih8 жыл бұрын

    this is incredible. btw i noticed in your videos sometimes the bg music is too high, it affects the voice over.

  • @qaz8904
    @qaz89047 жыл бұрын

    that had some great history

  • @nalulumbay
    @nalulumbay7 жыл бұрын

    very well explained.

  • @MsSBVideos
    @MsSBVideos8 жыл бұрын

    Have you ever visited the store of stores or resteraunt of resteraunts?

  • @snowballeclipse4991

    @snowballeclipse4991

    7 жыл бұрын

    lol

  • @k.a.s1812
    @k.a.s18125 жыл бұрын

    I don't really know why but I would love to hear whoever does the narrations for these videos to do audio books

  • @td5760
    @td57604 жыл бұрын

    3:48 Is this where The Greatest Showman took inspiration with?

  • @Wanderingby
    @Wanderingby2 жыл бұрын

    Shocking lack of mention of musuems in the UK - Victoria & Albert or the Sir John Soane

  • @mengkunsi9811
    @mengkunsi98119 ай бұрын

    Amazing

  • @niory
    @niory9 жыл бұрын

    many firsts were in Iraq ! its trully tragic what became of Iraq today ... a state of constant chaos ... the world has lots of ressons to do everything in their power to stop whats happening there and start digging for more History on that land

  • @ShibashishMahapatra

    @ShibashishMahapatra

    9 жыл бұрын

    It was Persia, after all.

  • @niory

    @niory

    9 жыл бұрын

    ***** suadi arabia was the birthplace of Islam and not Iraq :)

  • @niory

    @niory

    9 жыл бұрын

    ***** Baghdad in Iraq was build by the Islamic abbasid empire *Caliphate* and was the capital of the Islamic empire and the capital of all knowledge for hundred of years ! so Iraq has a big rule during the Islamic period which back then was quite admirable

  • @ShibashishMahapatra

    @ShibashishMahapatra

    9 жыл бұрын

    sara meachel 'Capital of all knowledge', I wouldn't agree to that.

  • @badneighbour999

    @badneighbour999

    9 жыл бұрын

    ***** and for the huns that catholiscm survived

  • @KFunMuseum
    @KFunMuseumКүн бұрын

    very nice video.

  • @someonethatexists46
    @someonethatexists463 жыл бұрын

    Great 👍 Ted ED!

  • @tigerwa
    @tigerwa9 жыл бұрын

    No mention of the Ashmolean?

  • @annarose3354
    @annarose33544 жыл бұрын

    Good point about ticket prices, I think museums should be free for everyone, adults included. Where I live in Aus generally only children are free. Sometimes the temporary exhibitions can be a bit expensive, and of course they're often the best ones.

  • @addamtan1791
    @addamtan17918 жыл бұрын

    sid Meier's civilization V background soundtrack. did I heard it right?

  • @uriituw
    @uriituw5 жыл бұрын

    Why does there need to be a ‘price of entry’ discussion at the end?

  • @vl2809
    @vl28098 жыл бұрын

    good video... unfortunately, this time you missed some crucial steps (clearly in favour of institutions known in the US). for example the very first institution called museum, the 16th century "museo" by italian historian Giovanni Dosio, a building at lake como where he collected portraits of important men of history. Or the very first art museum open to the public, the Pinakothek in Munich. Also, the predominantly royal Wunderkammern started off in the late 15th century and became really big in the 16th century, so it's a bit misleading to cite an example of the 17th century, whilst leaving out the 16th century entirely.

  • @apoorvatripathi4322

    @apoorvatripathi4322

    Жыл бұрын

    your comment must be pinned'

  • @ssebuyungochris5735
    @ssebuyungochris57356 жыл бұрын

    This is great to know

  • @DrN0rd
    @DrN0rd9 жыл бұрын

    I got that foster's house of imaginary friend's reference! :D

  • @user-zl3hn1bm7g
    @user-zl3hn1bm7g6 ай бұрын

    The gift shop of gift shops will cost a lot of money to enter. It has many gift shops in it. LOL

  • @enigma1865
    @enigma18654 жыл бұрын

    In my research, I noticed most Lincoln museums were closely related to the Dime Museum tradition.

  • @nighttimetelevision2969
    @nighttimetelevision29696 жыл бұрын

    This video makes me want to visit a museum 😂

  • @alejandroojeda6604
    @alejandroojeda66047 жыл бұрын

    did they mention any european museum beyond the seconds dedicated to the Louvre?

  • @SharonLinfromTaiwan
    @SharonLinfromTaiwan6 жыл бұрын

    I love it!!!!

  • @simonmalaga

    @simonmalaga

    4 жыл бұрын

    i not like

  • @andhikasoehalim3170
    @andhikasoehalim31709 жыл бұрын

    The front of the museum looked a bit like the Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends building.

  • @cattidesjar4229
    @cattidesjar42297 жыл бұрын

    I love Addison Anderson's voice!

  • @MuseosAbiertos
    @MuseosAbiertos6 жыл бұрын

    hey, the link to TED lesson is broken :-(

  • @pipercharms7374
    @pipercharms73742 жыл бұрын

    I feel like this is more of an American perspective? In the UK and I assume other countries Museums are free to enter? Also maybe its just my biased british learnings but I heard the first museum open to the public was Ashmolean Museum, yet theres no mention of that here,

  • @JacktheRah
    @JacktheRah7 жыл бұрын

    You could have mention that in Germany after a old law all museums which aren't founded by a privat person are free to visit on sundays.

  • @bulbs_
    @bulbs_3 жыл бұрын

    In the uk museums (or at least most) are free to enter.

  • @CoolGirl007
    @CoolGirl007 Жыл бұрын

    I remembered the ticket charged for entering du louvre is quite expensive

  • @varunprakash6207
    @varunprakash62074 жыл бұрын

    Museum - Greek word - Muse collection of our ancient material preserve to showcase to the people 👍👍👍👍👍👍

  • @flavialuz6221
    @flavialuz62213 жыл бұрын

    pq o video é ingês e o titulo portugues?

  • @user-gs3ju7vy6z
    @user-gs3ju7vy6z3 жыл бұрын

    What an amazing period! We discovered extraordinary secrets on the tour, and it's like time travel so that you could see how Chinese people were doing 100 years ago. @

  • @deleted-something
    @deleted-something5 ай бұрын

    museums are a part of society,

  • @dhruvsauran871
    @dhruvsauran8713 жыл бұрын

    My mam is showing this to me , thanks for making me sad

  • @xSCHEF
    @xSCHEF9 жыл бұрын

    The Rijksmuseum, one of the worlds greatest museums and the home of Rembrandt and Vermeer and numerous other great artists, was opened in 1800, 40 years before 'the founder of museums' Burnum. America hur dur.

  • @wrcclim3602

    @wrcclim3602

    7 жыл бұрын

    It's after!

  • @Vexsus22
    @Vexsus228 жыл бұрын

    "she must of had interesting parties." /wink ..... hrrmmmm

  • @santiago24601

    @santiago24601

    8 жыл бұрын

    ikr

  • @Michael-xm4ux
    @Michael-xm4ux8 жыл бұрын

    museum is the second choice when you failed at the bank

  • @TalDreamcast
    @TalDreamcast9 жыл бұрын

    Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends... anyone?

  • @espiinasnegras
    @espiinasnegras8 жыл бұрын

    In méxico almost all museums are free 1 day per week, others are free all the time. :)

  • @illanalevi6091
    @illanalevi60918 жыл бұрын

    the gift shop of gift shops :)

  • @matildawolfram4687
    @matildawolfram46872 жыл бұрын

    Thanks to the author of the channel for a very fascinating tour! When visiting another city or country, every educated person must visit a museum. Visiting museums is very useful and fascinating. A love for the "eternal" and "beautiful" is awakened in a person, the beginnings of greatness and respect for history are inculcated. It is impossible to turn the excursion into something banal, ordinary and boring. The person should be a comprehensively developed person, cultured, educated, critically and analytically thinking, with knowledge of foreign languages. It is the knowledge of a foreign language that opens wide prospects for a person to realize his/her creative potential, career and financial growth. I would like to recommend the practical training course by Yuriy Ivantsiv "Polyglot Notes. Practical tips for learning foreign language", where you can find lots of useful information how to learn a foreign language quickly. Learn a foreign language and realize your creative potential on an international scale! The international community needs creative ideas!

  • @vennonetes4805
    @vennonetes48059 жыл бұрын

    Wasn't the first museum open to the public the Musei Capitolini opened to the public in 1734 by Pope Clemems XII?

  • @ThePrikoki
    @ThePrikoki8 жыл бұрын

    @ 2:20 , speaking of western ignorance, where is the Black Sea on the map behind he tour guide?

  • @Skandar0007
    @Skandar00079 жыл бұрын

    Yes, you pay for admission in the US but you get to see the best.

  • @stevenn9072
    @stevenn90729 жыл бұрын

    Is anyone else reminded of fosters home for imaginary friends intro?

  • @wyattwalker4866

    @wyattwalker4866

    8 жыл бұрын

    YES THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT I WAS THINKING

  • @Jordan-vr7ip
    @Jordan-vr7ip5 жыл бұрын

    A Museum is like humanity's resume'. If aliens ever visit us and want to know everything about us and Earth we take them to a Museum.

  • @bruh-bn3ni
    @bruh-bn3ni Жыл бұрын

    museums are the best

  • @pontusedberg
    @pontusedberg9 жыл бұрын

    i want someone to build this, and have your voice as an audio tour, :3, also interesting what gitftshop of giftshop sells,

  • @jumbochamploon2591

    @jumbochamploon2591

    9 жыл бұрын

    probably gift shops.. but what do THOSE gift shops sell?

  • @TurnipBoy666
    @TurnipBoy6665 жыл бұрын

    you mean the museum age factorial yeah, i did it again

  • @Anappel90
    @Anappel904 жыл бұрын

    Actually the Ennigaldi's cylinder shown as an arctifact is the label of one od the pieces.

  • @XSpamDragonX
    @XSpamDragonX8 жыл бұрын

    Isn't the plural of museum "musea"?

  • @tanyushing2494
    @tanyushing24948 жыл бұрын

    +1 culture

  • @crymea
    @crymea7 жыл бұрын

    museums of museums of museums of museums of museums.

  • @jjmaker6422
    @jjmaker64223 жыл бұрын

    Come in here~~~\/

  • @dilanmachado4239
    @dilanmachado42394 жыл бұрын

    US=>35000 museums Rest of the world= about 20500 museums This is weird

  • @nevercallmebyname
    @nevercallmebyname7 жыл бұрын

    the gift shop of gift shops doesnt sell gift shops does it? because that would be excessively dumb

  • @wrcclim3602
    @wrcclim36027 жыл бұрын

    4:56 Actually, it's the modern age.

  • @cadensacc
    @cadensacc4 жыл бұрын

    People here from school!/ ms saad

  • @coenvannoord4976
    @coenvannoord49769 жыл бұрын

    The problem with museums is that they are to far apart i have to take a train to go to a museum o natural history wich realy bums me out

  • @UatuOmega
    @UatuOmega9 жыл бұрын

    So THAT'S what Addison looks like... ;)

  • @thomasthecommentrater3703
    @thomasthecommentrater37032 жыл бұрын

    TEDed, Museums, its all Theodore Roosevelt.

  • @gregoriarodriguez8159
    @gregoriarodriguez81596 жыл бұрын

    sad bit true

  • @mariamawda1075
    @mariamawda10756 жыл бұрын

    the first museum was created in 530 B.C in what is now Iraq ✌✌

  • @abdelhaykabani8264
    @abdelhaykabani82642 жыл бұрын

    كمتعلم للغة الانكليزية عندي سؤال أتمنى أن تقع عليه عين المترجم و الذي هو كالآتي : أخي الفاضل أظن أن الترجمة لهذه الجملة: " temples built for the Muses, the goddesses of the arts and the sciences هي : معابد بنيت من أجل الآلهة اليونانية التي هي آلهة الفنون و العلوم" و قد استندت في ذلك على الثقافة اليونانية فهل هذه الترجمة صحيحة؟؟ لأن الترجمة في الفيديو تقول أن Musesمعناها مفكرون و ليس آلهة

  • @BallotBoxer
    @BallotBoxer9 жыл бұрын

    I think all museums should strive to be objective as possible. Present the facts in a neutral space so the viewer can learn. I don't like biased museums like the Creation Museum in Petersburg, KY. If you haven't heard of it, the museum skews scientific discoveries to conform to biblical interpretations.

  • @ebrahimjamshid8328
    @ebrahimjamshid83287 жыл бұрын

    Da fuck Is it only in the U.K. Where museums are free for all.

  • @s8ntiago
    @s8ntiago9 жыл бұрын

    Kewl

  • @hihowareyou4087
    @hihowareyou40878 жыл бұрын

    I thought it was cause we researched archeology

  • @pfgram292
    @pfgram2929 жыл бұрын

    Would the catholic monasteries be considered museums because of their vast recordings of literature?

  • @YdeB

    @YdeB

    9 жыл бұрын

    I believe a vast collection of literature is usually described with the word 'library'-

  • @timurtheterrible4062
    @timurtheterrible40623 жыл бұрын

    "Just step in closet"

  • @Zestrayswede
    @Zestrayswede8 жыл бұрын

    Yo dawg...

  • @per_ringnes
    @per_ringnes9 жыл бұрын

    all museums should be free for everyone, and be funded by the government, by the tax payers money. just like schools, hospitals and libraries.

  • @annissagultom6213
    @annissagultom62133 жыл бұрын

    Talk about western ignorance, why no mention of colonialism and it's role post Renaissance era in the "development" of museums? This video needs a sequel

  • @MrQwerty2524
    @MrQwerty25249 жыл бұрын

    So Museums belong in museums? *Mind blown*

  • @jjmaker6422
    @jjmaker64223 жыл бұрын

    What a thing

  • @soapymarshmallow
    @soapymarshmallow7 жыл бұрын

    clay labels. claybels

  • @mariazarco658
    @mariazarco6583 жыл бұрын

    Alguien hablar español

  • @Franciscavid
    @Franciscavid9 жыл бұрын

    and then the internet came

  • @n.d.324
    @n.d.3244 жыл бұрын

    The Louvre is actually free for people demanding asylum in France.

  • @Pilum1000
    @Pilum10004 жыл бұрын

    I don't think that museums have anything to do with the circus. Barnum is he there or not Barnum. in fact and in essence

  • @miriga3927

    @miriga3927

    3 жыл бұрын

    Museum are quite similar to a circus back then, though they had acts and such, people came for the novelty of an exotic animal of an unordinary person- museums were just scientific oddities not so mischievous different .