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The Museum is a Modern Age Culture 
Building in Civilization VII.
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Traditionally, a museum is understood as a collection of objects, generally for educational purposes and often for the public. However, the concept of a public museum relies on the concept of the "public," which was not a given in many historical times and places. Early museum-like collections were often associated with an individual or a religious institution – consider Buddhist or Christian reliquaries meant to showcase particular religious teachings or events. Alternatively, Catherine the Great’s art collection in Russia was the largest collection of its time. Reliquaries were for public education but only for a specific public, and private collections were secular but limited in scope and accessibility – but together they resemble the modern museum. As the notion that education served a public benefit grew up alongside an ideology of secularism (and, on a darker note, as European powers expanded their colonial reach), new museums opened: the Ashmolean Museum, the Louvre, and the British Museum among others. In later years, it became standard for countries to have a central, national museum: the Smithsonian, the museums of Ueno Park, and the like.
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- Museum in other games