公元前4世纪,马其顿的亚历山大大帝在建立地跨欧亚非的大帝国的军事行动中,把掠夺来的珍贵艺术品和稀有古物交给他的老师——大名鼎鼎的亚里士多德整理研究。亚历山大去世后,他的部下托勒密·索托建立了新的王朝,继续南征北战,收集更多的文化珍品。他创建了一座专门放置这些藏品的缪斯神庙,希腊文Mouseion后来演变为英文Museum,这被公认为“博物馆”的起源。 In the 4th century BC, Alexander the Great of Macedonia in the establishment of a large-scale empire across the Eurasian military operations, to the plundered precious works of art and rare antiquities to his teacher - the famous Aristotle finishing research. After Alexander’s death, his mentor Ptolemy Soto established a new dynasty and continued the North-South campaign to collect more cultural treasures. He created a Temple of Muse dedicated to the collections, and the Greek Mouseion later evolved into the English Museum, which is considered to be the origin of the “Museum”.