What is the oldest museum in the world?

Answer 1

With 19 museums in total, the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C., is the largest museum complex in the world.

The largest art museum in the world is the Metropolitan Museum of Art (the Met) in New York City. The Met's single building is over 2,000,000 square feet.

Answer 2

Early museums began as the private collections of wealthy individuals, families or institutions of art and rare or curious natural objects and artifacts. These were often displayed in so-called wonder rooms or cabinets of curiosities. Public access was often possible for the "respectable", especially to private art collections, but at the whim of the owner and his staff.

The Royal Armouries Museum in the Tower of London is the oldest museum in the United Kingdom. It opened to the public in 1660, though there had been paying privileged visitors to the armouries displays from 1592.

The first publicly owned museum in Europe was the Amerbach-Cabinet in Basel, originally a private collection sold to the city in 1661 and public since 1671

Answer 3

The Louvre in Paris is the largest museum in the world.

Answer 4

Oxford's museum