{"id":1285,"date":"2015-04-13T12:34:08","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T16:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/?p=1285"},"modified":"2015-04-15T11:36:21","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T15:36:21","slug":"creativity-breadcrumb-50-the-history-of-museums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/2015\/04\/13\/creativity-breadcrumb-50-the-history-of-museums\/","title":{"rendered":"Creativity Breadcrumb 50: &#8220;The History of Museums&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>food for creative making, doing, and thinking<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Many people go to museums to learn the history of something-of art, science, or even human civilization. Where does one go, however, to learn about the history of museums? A recent Ted-Ed video runs through a brief history of museums, revealing that they were not always the public spaces we think of today. Please watch the video below to discover how, what started out as Greek &#8220;temples built for the muses&#8221; became, through movements such as the Renaissance and Enlightenment, &#8220;centers for scholarship and artistic and scientific discovery.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why do we have museums? - J. V. Maranto\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MHo928fd2wE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>food for creative making, doing, and thinking Many people go to museums to learn the history of something-of art, science, or even human civilization. Where does one go, however, to <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/2015\/04\/13\/creativity-breadcrumb-50-the-history-of-museums\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"sr-only\">Read more about Creativity Breadcrumb 50: &#8220;The History of Museums&#8221;<\/span>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3743,"featured_media":1286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12711,68828],"class_list":["post-1285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-museums","tag-ted-ed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3743"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1285"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1514,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions\/1514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}