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From: Ross Clark <benlizro@ihug.co.nz>
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Subject: International Museum Day (18 May)
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"This day was created in 1946-7 by the International Council of 
Museums....The day has been recognized since 1977...."

OK, it's got some origins and some depth. But I'd like to know more 
about these subtle ontological gradations in the histories of Days. What 
was it like during the time when it was created, but not recognized?

But to the topic: Museums of Language!
Crystal reminds us that we visited one on 15 April -- that "House of 
Vigdis" in Iceland.

It seems there are others...

"largest" - Planet Word, Washington, D.C.  (est.2020) - great building!
	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Word
	https://planetwordmuseum.org/

"one of the smallest" - Mundolingua, Paris (opened 2013) - looks more 
playful
	https://www.mundolingua.org/
	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mundolingua

"oldest in the world" - Aasen Centre, Norway - "unbroken history from 1898"
	https://presentations.thebestinheritage.com/2016/CentreForNorwegianLanguageAndLiterature

local focus - Canadian Language Museum, Toronto - nice grounds!
	https://languagemuseum.ca/
	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Language_Museum

proposed, but fell through - London (1990s), Barcelona (2000s)

mobile - World of Languages pop-up museum, Cambridge and On the Road, 	
	2019, curtailed by pandemic
	https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/worldoflanguages
	
online - National Museum of Language - physical facility in College 	
	Park, Maryland, 2008-2014, since then "virtual museum"
	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Museum_of_Language

and, finally, a vast list of them:
	https://www.nynorsk.no/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/814-20180314-Language-museums-OG.pdf

Anybody visited (or been visited by) any of these?