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‘A museum’, says the International Council of Museums, ‘is a permanent establishment administered in the public interest, with a view to conserve, study, exploit by various means and, basically, to exhibit, for the pleasure and education of the public, objects of cultural value.’
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© 1975 Kenneth Hudson
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Hudson, K. (1975). Introduction The Changing Idea of a Museum. In: A Social History of Museums. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-01757-7_1
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