Eli5 Did romans or the Greeks have museums for historic stuff?

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Pretty self-explanatory did ancient cultures had museums for in their time ancient relicts?

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Yes, kind of.

Not the same kind of museums we have today.

But the extremely wealthy CERTAINLY collected special pieces and ancient relics. Granted there want ad much knowledge of archeology or anything, but big collections or various artifacts definitively existed. For example wealthy Romans often imported Egyptian art and artifacts.

So like, real museums? No not really.

But wealthy people collecting old pretty looking stuff or stuff attached to legends? Yes definitely.

And sometimes these things were out on display in temples and stuff for the public to see, but not purely like a museum

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