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The Catholic Church founded the Capitoline Museums in 1471 when Pope Sixtus IV donated many ancient Roman statues and artifacts to the municipality of Rome. The Capitoline Museums are important because they demonstrate the Catholic Church's importance in its role as an early museum. Especially during the Renaissance, the Church was the main contributor to revitalizing ancient art and artifacts for studying and collecting. The Capitoline Museums serve as an example of the history of history museums supported by religious organizations.

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Ole Worm's Cabinet of Curiosity was the first instance of a modern collection in Europe that set the standard for modern history museums. The Cabinet was important in how it set an example of classifying and labeling objects never been done before with a massive array of artifacts. The Cabinet was also further utilized as a commission experiment setting an example for future museums and exhibitions to charge fees for the experience of their collection.

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The Ashmolean Museum was Britain's first public museum which included antique coins, books, engravings, and other specimens. The Ashmolean Museum is an important point in history where the displays of European museums showed off the wealth and collection of merchants and explorers post-Columbus. It served as a sign of the increasing interconnectedness of the world at that point and the exploration of continental cultures.

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The Amerbach Cabinet was a private collection turned into a public collection when fully purchased by the city of Basal. The Amerbach Cabinet is important because it demonstrates one of the first instances of the government and city incorporating a museum for public service and goods. The history of museums will gradually become more public-focused and less privatized as time goes on and the Amerbach Cabinet is one of the first examples of that mission.

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The Kunstkamera is a museum that was formally organized by and supported by Peter the Great during his establishment of St. Petersburg as the new Russian capital. The Kunstkamera is important because it demonstrates the first instance of national pride and interest in erecting national culture in modern Russia. This sets a precedent of Museums being a beacon of national culture that the nation it is within can connect with.

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The British Museum was founded by the British Museum Act of 1753 and was one of the first national museums not belonging to a king or church but open to the public. The height of the British Empire enjoyed many of the riches from Sudan, Egypt, Greece, Rome, China, the Middle East, and the Americas. The British Museum is embolic of the height of the colonial age for Europe and the impressive collection from all regions of the globe. This offered the British Museum a unique position as the all-in-one museum of the world, one that has not been replicated since.

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The Louvre was available to the public and displayed 96 pieces from the French Royal Collection in the mid-18th century. During the French Revolution, the Louvre was declared "a place for bringing together monuments of all sciences and arts". The Louvre is important because it showcases how museums can be attached to the political dynamics of the time and are adaptable between periods, as a way to preserve national spirit and identity as well as beyond the ages.

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The National Museum of Natural History was created to showcase the early collections of artifacts and specimens obtained throughout the Great American Exploration Expedition of the West. This is important because it reveals how the Museum institution also preserves and utilizes nature as a way of teaching citizens about the environment and natural history before humans. As modern museums become more apparent, natural history and context are given more light to reflect our situational relationship with the environment.

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The National Palace Museum originally was established in Mainland China consisting of artifacts of former imperial families. However, during the evacuation efforts to Taiwan, the ROC took the most vulnerable items with them. This is important because it demonstrates how important artifact identification can be for a nation as the National Palace Museum has been used as a symbol for the legitimacy of the Taiwanese government. The rightful ownership of artifacts within museums is hotly contested even today but this is a direct example of how politics can be interwoven in the treasures of museums.

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The Asian Art Museum (one of my favorites) was created by huge donation efforts and served to bridge the understanding between the U.S. and Asia. I believe these sort of museums that represent another world's culture in a different national location allows museums to do something recognizable for the public to observe. The integration of culture without boundaries in an increasingly diverse world, especially in the United States, has become more and more common in the future.