5: What is an Art Museum?

When the age of art is linked to its value, the lines between art and history museums get blurred. Betty and Quinn discuss the formal differences between art and history museums and why objects are placed in one or another.

Links and Show Notes: Support Pictorial with a Relay FM Membership A brief history of the art museum - Khan Academy History museum definition - Britannica Ole Worm's Cabinet of Curiosities Permanent Exhibitions - American Museum of Natural History Anthropology Now and Then in the American Museum of Natural History: An Alternative Museum - Anthropology Now