Museums

• English
• Secondary Education
• Age 12

Museums

Royal Tyrrell Museum

Curator (n.)

• A person who oversees and manages a museum and its collections
  
• 
  The curator is an expert in her
  field.

Who is a curator?

Tour Guide (n.)

• A person employed to show tourists around places of interest
  
• 
  Our tour guide was very informative!

What is the difference between a curator and a tour guide?

Sculpture (n.) 

• a piece of work produced by shaping solid figures(as people or things)out of stone, wood, clay, metal, etc.

The visual below is an example of sculpture.

1. True
2. False

showcase
(n.)

• a container with glass sides in which valuable or important objects are kept so that they can be looked at without being touched, damaged, or stolen
  .

Pottery (n.)

• objects that are made out of clay by hand.

Find a pottery piece that reflects your own culture and add the image here.

Portrait (n.)

• a painting, drawing, photograph, or engraving of a person, especially one depicting only the face or head and shoulders.
  

Portrait 1

Portrait 2

After examining the two portraits given in the previous slide, which portrait are you most interested in? Why?

In the next slide, you will open a website promoting museums in Istanbul. On this website, try to find the concepts associated with the museums.

www.greatistanbul.com

Museums
(Add the information you find.)

00:51

In which language does the origin of the word museum belong?

01:30

Where was the first museum founded? Who was the first curator?

04:29

How many days a week did the Louvre museum receive visitors?