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How the Museion and Everything Else You Are Witnessing Today Came to Be<\/b><\/i>
\nTo the classically inclined, the name Museion<\/i><\/b> will naturally suggest the Temple of the Muses that housed, among many other wonders, the famed Library of Alexandria established by the Ptolemies in Hellenistic Egypt. Although our modern Museion cannot claim quite so ancient a lineage, its history is nevertheless distinguished.<\/p>\n
Its story began in the 1830\u2019s, when like-minded savants<\/i> from several countries organised the Neo-Musological Society<\/i><\/b> to assist the cause of human development amidst the social disruptions that they foresaw as inevitable concomitants of accelerating technological progress.<\/p>\n
Among many other projects, the Society began issuing in 1837 The Muses\u2019 Magazine for Extraordinary Young People<\/i><\/b>, a publication designed to inculcate those qualities of Curiosity<\/i>, Percipience<\/i>, Benevolence<\/i>, and Humour<\/i> deemed essential for the future of Humanity. The magazine was an immediate success, and kindled a social movement for world illumination jocularly christened by its young proponents Plainly Innocuous<\/i><\/b>.<\/p>\n
Encouraged by the popularity of T. M. M.<\/i>, the Society founded a school, the Academy of the Muses<\/b>, to foster its aims in a more-direct manner. The original Academy, situated in London, was quickly joined by others, viz.<\/i>:-<\/p>\n In its most ambitious project to date, members of the Society, at the request of His Royal Highness the Prince Consort, undertook the task of organising the Great Muse Exhibition of the Works of All Nations<\/i><\/b> and of developing its centrepiece, the Museion<\/i><\/b>. The fruits of their labours, one may safely say without fear of contradiction, speak for themselves.<\/p>\n A Wayfarer’s Vademecum to the Musiverse = or = How the Museion and Everything Else You Are Witnessing Today Came to Be To the classically inclined, the name Museion will naturally suggest the Temple of the Muses that housed, among many other wonders, the famed Library of Alexandria established by the Ptolemies in Hellenistic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museblog.com\/museion\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museblog.com\/museion\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museblog.com\/museion\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museblog.com\/museion\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museblog.com\/museion\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.museblog.com\/museion\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museblog.com\/museion\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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