Museums are institutions that collect, research, promote and interpret objects (Sandell and Janes, 2007). It was … insisted on the idea that the whole existence of the museums depends on the possession of a collection (McLean, 1994). While … the collection’s care and interpretation are recognized to be the museum’s base functions, the decline in public funding …

economic life of cities, led to the development of the “emblem museums”. The “emblem museum” usually becomes a touristic … city, the tourists will increase the amount of money they spend in that location. The “emblem museums” represent a way to … showed that 3 out of 10 tourists visited London for its museums. One of them is the British Museum, which, in 2010 was on the …