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The first museum was built to show off stolen stuff politely. “Artifacts” is a classy word.

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Early collections like the Mouseion of Alexandria and later royal and church collections preceded public museums. The Ashmolean (1683) and British Museum (1753) are early public examples, and acquisition methods varied, some of them controversial.

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