Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Agents Facet
3. Organizations (hierarchy name)
4. organizations (groups)
5. institutions (organizations)
6. [institutions by activity]

Narrower term/s

• presidential libraries (institutions)
• art museums (institutions)[+]
  • pinacotecas
• fishery museums (institutions)
• history museums (institutions)
• museums of moving images (institutions)
• philatelic museums (institutions)
• religious museums (institutions)
• wax museums (institutions)
• ecomuseums (institutions)
• historical society museums (institutions)
• historic house museums (institutions)
• industrial museums (institutions)
• maritime museums (institutions)
• military museums (institutions)
• community museums (institutions)
• company museums (institutions)
• county museums (institutions)
• international museums (institutions)
• national museums (institutions)
• children's museums (institutions)
• natural history museums (institutions)
• science museums (institutions)
• naval museums (institutions)
• geological museums (institutions)
• virtual museums
• transportation museums (institutions)[+]
  • aeronautical museums (institutions)
  • astronautical museums (institutions)
  • automotive museums (institutions)
  • carriage museums (institutions)
• ethnographic museums (institutions)

Anotations

Scope note:

Institutions that maintain places where objects of value such as works of art, antiquities, scientific specimens, or other artifacts are housed and displayed for public benefit. An institution devoted to the procurement, care, documentation, study and display of objects of lasting interest or value.