"Museum" as a word, the first in the "Shan Hai Jing" on there, it means to identify a variety of things; "Shang" said Wen Bo know more than the artificial "museum gentleman"; "Han Yuan Wang Chuan Chan Chu" in that there are "Museum contact the press and accessible Ancient and Modern" was intended. To the latter half of the 19th century, China's imitation of Japan, the "museum" in the beginning of the name as a discipline, "Museum" and includes animals, plants, minerals, biological and other knowledge.