Learn the meaning of the word “museum”

• Museums

Warm-up

• Have you ever visited any museum?
• If ,yes, what kind of museum have you visited?
• Tell me about your impressions.

Learn the meaning of the word “MUSEUM”

• The English "museum" comes from the Latin word, "museums" (or, rarely, "musea").It is originally from the Greek Μουσείον (Mouseion), which denotes a place or temple dedicated to the Muses (the patron divinities in Greek mythology of the arts).Museums collect and care for objects of scientific, artistic, or historical importance and make them available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary. Most large museums are located in major cities throughout the world.

What is museum? It is an organization which works on collecting, keeping and exhibiting everything what has historical value. These may be monuments, masterpieces of art, pictures, machines, scientific collections and so on. There are a lot museums in the world. They are different – historical museums of regional ethnography, art galleries, zoological, museums devoted to famous writers, poets, scientists, well – known people.

• What is museum? It is an organization which works on collecting, keeping and exhibiting everything what has historical value. These may be monuments, masterpieces of art, pictures, machines, scientific collections and so on. There are a lot museums in the world. They are different – historical museums of regional ethnography, art galleries, zoological, museums devoted to famous writers, poets, scientists, well – known people.

• Some of them are leading, others unknown. But all are interesting. The leading centers are Rome, Moscow, London, St. Petersburg, Paris, Greece. What can you see in museums? You can see manuscripts, first editions, historical documents, sculptures, drawings, paintings, photographs, own clothes and things of famous people and others. »

Task 1. Match the words with their definition

1	Museum	paintings, drawings, and sculptures that are created to be beautiful or to express ideas
2	Collection	a public building where you can look at paintings and other works of art
3	Exhibition	an excellent painting, book, piece of music etc, or the best work of art that a particular artist, writer, musician etc has ever produced
4	Art	a picture made using paint
5	Sculpture	someone whose job is to look after a group of people who are visiting a place and give them information about it
6	Gallery	Very special, unusual, or good
7	Masterpiece	a solid object that someone makes as a work of art by shaping a substance such as stone, metal, or wood
8	Painting	works of art that are kept together, for example in a museum
9	Guide	a building where many valuable and important objects are kept so that people can go and see them
10	Unique	a public show where art or other interesting things are put so that people can go and look at them