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What does mouseion mean?

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What does the word mouseion mean?

I cannot find " mouseion " (or anything similar) in any of my numerous dictionaries, so I am inclined to think you have mis-spelled it. Please try again.


Does museum have greek origins?

Yes. It comes from the Greek word "mouseion" meaning "a place of study" but was originally intended to mean "a shrine for the Muses." This word is the root of the Latin word "museum" which has the same meaning as the original Greek ("a place of study")


What has the author Ioseph Chatzidakes written?

Ioseph Chatzidakes has written: 'Historia tou Kretikou Mouseiou' -- subject- s -: Antiquities, Crete, Crete. Mouseion Archaiologikon


What has the author Semni Karouzou written?

Semni Karouzou has written: 'National Museum' -- subject(s): Ethnikon Archaiologikon Mouseion (Greece), Art museums, Catalogs


What has the author Vassilios G Kallipolitis written?

Vassilios G. Kallipolitis has written: 'Museo nazionale Atene' -- subject(s): Ethnikon Archaiologikon Mouseion (Greece), Greek Sculpture, Sculpture, Greek


Where does the word museum originate come from?

The origin of the word museum is early 17th century (denoting a university building, specifically one erected at Alexandria by Ptolemy Soter), from Latin from Greek mouseion 'seat of the Muses,' based on mousa 'muse.'


What Latin words is museum derived from?

The word "museum", which is exists both in English and in Latin, comes originally from the Greek word Mouseion, "the seat of the Muses", from Mousa, "a Muse".(The Muses were the nine daughters of Mnemosyne and Zeus. Each one presided over a different field of art and literature.).


What has the author Vasileios Ch Petrakos written?

Vasileios Ch Petrakos has written: 'Marathon' -- subject(s): Antiquities, History, Marathon, Battle of, Greece, 490 B.C. 'Great moments in Greek archaeology' -- subject(s): Antiquities, Excavations (Archaeology) 'National Museum' -- subject(s): Antiquities, Art, Catalogs, Ethnikon Archaiologikon Mouseion (Greece), Greek Art


How does a Muse relate to a museum?

Museum is a latinized word from the ancient Greek word mouseion an adjective from mousa or 'Muse' a human female person worshipped for the particular art she represented, eg Clio for history. As a noun to mouseion referred to a temple of the Muses or place dedicated to the Muses, the Muses being the collective of 9 individual personifications. In Ancient Greece the museum became a building devoted to scholarship, although none was as famous as the Museum of Alexandria in Egypt which was open from 300BC to 400AD. In Western Europe the emphasis was on collected objects, natural and man made. The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, England, dates from 1678, the British Museum, London, from 1753, the oldest museum in the USA is thought to be Charleston Museum SC from 1770.


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