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
@noahfrench7412 9 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.
@CraftedTomLion
@CraftedTomLion 9 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
👎👎👎
@peace8096
@peace8096 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.
@Webber-sr3xk
@Webber-sr3xk 4 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
@BrainStuffShow 9 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
@merrymachiavelli2041 9 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.
@28Superficial
@28Superficial 9 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.
@localtriggerfan1998
@localtriggerfan1998 7 жыл бұрын
"Just step into the wardrobe here. There you go. And we'll tour...NARNIA."
@kenbobca
@kenbobca 8 жыл бұрын
Very good video, I always learn something while watching TED-ed. Thank you.
@TheRyanLamont
@TheRyanLamont 9 жыл бұрын
I love museums so this was fascinating to me!
@lindseymiller5520
@lindseymiller5520 3 жыл бұрын
Love it!! Would love one focusing on art specifically
@azipoor3468
@azipoor3468 5 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
@sindarinelf1 9 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.
@Gears456123
@Gears456123 9 жыл бұрын
We watched this in class today, awesome
@jupitired777
@jupitired777 5 жыл бұрын
these lessons are great
@fjmh3933
@fjmh3933 3 жыл бұрын
My favourite museum is the Story Museum in Oxford, it's great fun and I loved it when I was younger.
@Theodora111Theo
@Theodora111Theo 8 жыл бұрын
"GIFT SHOP OF GIFTSHOPS" DINGIT... I ACTUALLY LAUGHED AT THAT TERRIBLE JOKE. X'D
@redstranger6772
@redstranger6772 8 жыл бұрын
Then sans came to be.
@jessicaduvon565
@jessicaduvon565 7 жыл бұрын
TanTinTon Me too!
@ntfrmhr
@ntfrmhr 6 жыл бұрын
i dont get it lol
@nalulumbay
@nalulumbay 7 жыл бұрын
very well explained.
@wyattwalker4866
@wyattwalker4866 8 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
@misssym769
@misssym769 6 жыл бұрын
P.T. Barnum. Wow. This was actually in "The Greatest Showman". Wow wow
@strange_and_magnificent
@strange_and_magnificent 3 жыл бұрын
Great 👍 Ted ED!
@td5760
@td5760 4 жыл бұрын
3:48 Is this where The Greatest Showman took inspiration with?
@k.a.s1812
@k.a.s1812 5 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
@kbinsobeih
@kbinsobeih 8 жыл бұрын
this is incredible. btw i noticed in your videos sometimes the bg music is too high, it affects the voice over.
@qaz8904
@qaz8904 7 жыл бұрын
that had some great history
@MsSBVideos
@MsSBVideos 8 жыл бұрын
Have you ever visited the store of stores or resteraunt of resteraunts?
@snowballeclipse4991
@snowballeclipse4991 8 жыл бұрын
lol
@mengkunsi9811
@mengkunsi9811 Жыл бұрын
Amazing
@Wanderingby
@Wanderingby 3 жыл бұрын
Shocking lack of mention of musuems in the UK - Victoria & Albert or the Sir John Soane
@KFunMuseum
@KFunMuseum 2 ай бұрын
very nice video.
@ssebuyungochris5735
@ssebuyungochris5735 7 жыл бұрын
This is great to know
@DrN0rd
@DrN0rd 9 жыл бұрын
I got that foster's house of imaginary friend's reference! :D
@SharonLinfromTaiwan
@SharonLinfromTaiwan 6 жыл бұрын
I love it!!!!
@simonmalaga
@simonmalaga 4 жыл бұрын
i not like
@annarose3354
@annarose3354 4 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
@addamtan1791 8 жыл бұрын
sid Meier's civilization V background soundtrack. did I heard it right?
@nighttimetelevision2969
@nighttimetelevision2969 6 жыл бұрын
This video makes me want to visit a museum 😂
@tigerwa
@tigerwa 9 жыл бұрын
No mention of the Ashmolean?
@uriituw
@uriituw 5 жыл бұрын
Why does there need to be a ‘price of entry’ discussion at the end?
@vl2809
@vl2809 8 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 2 жыл бұрын
your comment must be pinned'
@alejandroojeda6604
@alejandroojeda6604 7 жыл бұрын
did they mention any european museum beyond the seconds dedicated to the Louvre?
@niory
@niory 9 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
@user-zl3hn1bm7g
@user-zl3hn1bm7g 8 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
@enigma1865 4 жыл бұрын
In my research, I noticed most Lincoln museums were closely related to the Dime Museum tradition.
@andhikasoehalim3170
@andhikasoehalim3170 9 жыл бұрын
The front of the museum looked a bit like the Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends building.
@MuseosAbiertos
@MuseosAbiertos 6 жыл бұрын
hey, the link to TED lesson is broken :-(
@cattidesjar4229
@cattidesjar4229 7 жыл бұрын
I love Addison Anderson's voice!
@pipercharms7374
@pipercharms7374 2 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,
@bulbs_
@bulbs_ 3 жыл бұрын
In the uk museums (or at least most) are free to enter.
@CoolGirl007
@CoolGirl007 2 жыл бұрын
I remembered the ticket charged for entering du louvre is quite expensive
@user-gs3ju7vy6z
@user-gs3ju7vy6z 3 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. @
@JacktheRah
@JacktheRah 8 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.
@dhruvsauran871
@dhruvsauran871 3 жыл бұрын
My mam is showing this to me , thanks for making me sad
@TalDreamcast
@TalDreamcast 9 жыл бұрын
Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends... anyone?
@flavialuz6221
@flavialuz6221 4 жыл бұрын
pq o video é ingês e o titulo portugues?
@ThePrikoki
@ThePrikoki 8 жыл бұрын
@ 2:20 , speaking of western ignorance, where is the Black Sea on the map behind he tour guide?
@illanalevi6091
@illanalevi6091 8 жыл бұрын
the gift shop of gift shops :)
@xSCHEF
@xSCHEF 9 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 8 жыл бұрын
It's after!
@varunprakash6207
@varunprakash6207 4 жыл бұрын
Museum - Greek word - Muse collection of our ancient material preserve to showcase to the people 👍👍👍👍👍👍
@matildawolfram4687
@matildawolfram4687 2 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
@vennonetes4805 9 жыл бұрын
Wasn't the first museum open to the public the Musei Capitolini opened to the public in 1734 by Pope Clemems XII?
@deleted-something
@deleted-something 7 ай бұрын
museums are a part of society,
@espiinasnegras
@espiinasnegras 9 жыл бұрын
In méxico almost all museums are free 1 day per week, others are free all the time. :)
@pontusedberg
@pontusedberg 9 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?
@Vexsus22
@Vexsus22 8 жыл бұрын
"she must of had interesting parties." /wink ..... hrrmmmm
@santiago24601
@santiago24601 8 жыл бұрын
ikr
@Skandar0007
@Skandar0007 9 жыл бұрын
Yes, you pay for admission in the US but you get to see the best.
@stevenn9072
@stevenn9072 9 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
@bruh-bn3ni
@bruh-bn3ni Жыл бұрын
museums are the best
@XSpamDragonX
@XSpamDragonX 9 жыл бұрын
Isn't the plural of museum "musea"?
@Jordan-vr7ip
@Jordan-vr7ip 6 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.
@Michael-xm4ux
@Michael-xm4ux 8 жыл бұрын
museum is the second choice when you failed at the bank
@tanyushing2494
@tanyushing2494 8 жыл бұрын
+1 culture
@crymea
@crymea 7 жыл бұрын
museums of museums of museums of museums of museums.
@abdelhaykabani8264
@abdelhaykabani8264 2 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
@jjmaker6422
@jjmaker6422 3 жыл бұрын
Come in here~~~\/
@wrcclim3602
@wrcclim3602 8 жыл бұрын
4:56 Actually, it's the modern age.
@TurnipBoy666
@TurnipBoy666 5 жыл бұрын
you mean the museum age factorial yeah, i did it again
@nevercallmebyname
@nevercallmebyname 7 жыл бұрын
the gift shop of gift shops doesnt sell gift shops does it? because that would be excessively dumb
@Anappel90
@Anappel90 5 жыл бұрын
Actually the Ennigaldi's cylinder shown as an arctifact is the label of one od the pieces.
@gregoriarodriguez8159
@gregoriarodriguez8159 6 жыл бұрын
sad bit true
@mariamawda1075
@mariamawda1075 6 жыл бұрын
the first museum was created in 530 B.C in what is now Iraq ✌✌
@UatuOmega
@UatuOmega 9 жыл бұрын
So THAT'S what Addison looks like... ;)
@pfgram292
@pfgram292 9 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'-
@BallotBoxer
@BallotBoxer 9 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.
@jjmaker6422
@jjmaker6422 3 жыл бұрын
What a thing
@s8ntiago
@s8ntiago 9 жыл бұрын
Kewl
@ebrahimjamshid8328
@ebrahimjamshid8328 7 жыл бұрын
Da fuck Is it only in the U.K. Where museums are free for all.
@katherineknapp6604
@katherineknapp6604 3 жыл бұрын
🤔
@annissagultom6213
@annissagultom6213 4 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
@coenvannoord4976
@coenvannoord4976 9 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
@dilanmachado4239
@dilanmachado4239 5 жыл бұрын
US=>35000 museums Rest of the world= about 20500 museums This is weird
@soapymarshmallow
@soapymarshmallow 7 жыл бұрын
clay labels. claybels
@mariazarco658
@mariazarco658 3 жыл бұрын
Alguien hablar español
@osGFXman
@osGFXman 9 жыл бұрын
and now google make it digital! #google_art_project
@cadensacc
@cadensacc 4 жыл бұрын
People here from school!/ ms saad
@timurtheterrible4062
@timurtheterrible4062 4 жыл бұрын
"Just step in closet"
@Zestrayswede
@Zestrayswede 8 жыл бұрын
Yo dawg...
@Pilum1000
@Pilum1000 4 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 .
@ceciliatellorebaza4529
@ceciliatellorebaza4529 3 жыл бұрын
Vengo por una tarea alguien me dice un resumen :D
@per_ringnes
@per_ringnes 9 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.
@hihowareyou4087
@hihowareyou4087 8 жыл бұрын
I thought it was cause we researched archeology
@mmm4638
@mmm4638 Жыл бұрын
FF to now, they Trust banks SKRing wealth preservation artifacts so when fractional banking money falls they keep wealth in place like Gold does basically they NFTs of old times and very much valid now.
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