Museums Timeline Outline

Saint Catherine in her Study with her Revolving Bookstand
(Circa 1399 – 1416)

Collecting Books and Prints in the Early Sixteenth Century
(Circa 1510 – 1539)

Construction of the Ufizzi
(1560 – 1581)

The First Treatise on Museums
(1565)

At Attempt to Record All Human Knowledge in Visual Form
(Circa 1625 – 1665)

The First Published Illustrated Catalogue of an Art Collection
(1660)

The First Book on Print Collecting
(1666)

Reflecting Surrealism Centuries Before Surrealism Became Fashionable
(1701 – 1725)

Founding the Library Company of Philadelphia
(July 1, 1731)

Foundation of the Greatest Museums of Florence
(February 18, 1743)

The British Museum is Founded
(January 11, 1753)

George II Donates the "Old Royal Library"
(1757)

The British Museum Opens
(1759)

The First Contemporary Art Exhibition
(April 21, 1760)

First Catalogue of the British Museum Library
(1787)

The First Historical Society in the United States
(January 24, 1791)

A Time-Capsule of Technology
(1819)

Genesis of the "Three-Age" System in Archaeology
(1836)

Foundation of the National Portrait Gallery
(December 2, 1856)

Foundation of the National Museum of Health and Medicine
(1862)

The Library and Museum Moved to the Site of Lincoln's Assassination
(1867)

The Earliest Exhibition Exclusively of Scientific Instruments
(1876)

Study of Museums and Research Libraries
(1905)

"Die Brucke" and its Goals for a World Information Clearing House
(June 11, 1911 – 1913)

Discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamum
(November 4, 1922)

The Museum Computer Network
(1967)

The Machine as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age
(1968)

The First U.S. Conference on Museum Computing
(April 1968)

UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property 1970
(November 14, 1970)

The British Library is Established as a Separate Entity
(1972)

Public Access to Electronic Information in a Museum
(1979)

Origins of the Computer History Museum
(September 1979)

The 1970 UNESCO Convention is Implemented in U.S. Law
(January 1983)

The Book and Beyond
(April 7 – October 1, 1995)

The First Museums and the Web Conference
(March 1997)

Looting of the National Museum of Iraq
(April 6 – April 12, 2003)

Netpreserve.org
(July 2003)

The Site of the Original Library of Alexandria
(May 12, 2004)

Pixar at MOMA
(December 14, 2005)

Access to Nearly One Million Archive Collection Descriptions
(March 2006)

OCLC Merges with RLG
(July 1, 2006)

A Virtual Exhibition . . .
(November 18, 2008)

Europeana, the European Digital Library, Museum and Archive
(November 20, 2008)

The Most Successful Art Forger Ever
(May 12 – August 22, 2010)

British Library App
(January 2011)

The Google Art Project
(February 1, 2011)

The First Annual Report Issued by a Museum in an eBook Format
(May 7, 2012)

An Innovative Interactive Museum Gallery Space with the Largest Multi-Touch Screen in the United States
(January 21, 2013)