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General Principles About Museums and Exhibitions

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In this chapter, some general considerations about museums and exhibitions are presented. First, we observe that museums and exhibitions present many reciprocal analogies. Both have, as a fundamental aim, the diffusion of the culture through exposition of collections of objects.

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Rovetta, A., Rovida, E. (2018). General Principles About Museums and Exhibitions. In: Scientific Knowledge Communication in Museums. Research for Development. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68330-0_3

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