Sweet moments with Ms. B

This is the Vatican Museum in Rome, Italy. Perhaps it is a wonderful place, but it is located very far from where i am, right now. I say "perhaps" because i didn't had a first hand experience in this particular place... well, not just yet anyway. I cannot trully describe it fully here. But the thing is, i obviously admire museums.

Since part of my requirement in my master's class is to make a historical concept of any allied subject i'm taking presently, which is "Public history, allow me to share with you what i picked as my historical concept. Within are some of my concerns about Museums. Here goes:

What makes up a Museum?
What does it do to each individual person, in particular and to every humane society in general?
What are the tolls needed to put up one?
What does it entails?
What might be its impact on any society?
What could be done to improve one?
What are the factors, which might affect its downfall and/or success?
What remedies would aid in its advancement?
What type of artifacts would go in or not in one?
What suggestions can be given for its longetivity?

Perhaps these are just some of the questions one can ask in the idea of museums. Museums can be regarded as a rich collection/s of significant items and/or places, things and ideas, whether historical, political and/or religious or even scientific in nature in this living world. It can also be the treasury of special yet forgotten past of anything.

So, anything and everything about Museums amazes me with its purpose and function in any society. And in this context, one can ask more questions like:

how can it be realized?
how may a place or item, or idea or even a thing become a part of a Museum?
how may a place or thing be included the collection?
how can historians or the people involved in its logistics realize its potentialities in society?
how can it be taken seriously then?
how can a society bring out its pure essence and be understood?
how could a person/s relate its past in a museum?
how may one understand its true purpose?
how easily can one be a flop if not unsuccessful?
how can it be done in a place (city or other)?

More of these sets of questionnaires are at hand in various sizes and/or magnitude. If only one can understand its real meaning to a person, perhaps, one can truly fathom its purpose in society –in general and in each person-in particular.