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Museums are places established for the preservation and exhibition of an extensive range of categories of cultural heritage materials that are unique testimonies of history or of artistic moments of the past and are connected with a culture and location. At the same time, museums have a specific educational, cultural and social function.
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Pasquariello, G., Maggi, O. (2003). Museums. In: Mandrioli, P., Caneva, G., Sabbioni, C. (eds) Cultural Heritage and Aerobiology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0185-3_8
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