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Standing status records whether a building still exists or was lost. The original Crystal Palace, built for the Great Exhibition of 1851, was "destroyed by fire in 1936," Wikipedia notes, after having already been moved from Hyde Park. This dimension separates buildings a visitor could still walk through from those that survive only in record.

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Era of Emergence
530 BCE 1
Origin Region
Mesopotamia (Iraq) 1
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  • Wikipedia, Museum, history section, era
    One of the oldest museums known is Ennigaldi-Nanna's museum, built by Princess Ennigaldi in modern Iraq at the end of the Neo-Babylonian Empire. The site dates from c. 530 BC, and contained artifacts from earlier Mesopotamian civilizations.
  • Wikipedia, Museum, history section, region
    One of the oldest museums known is Ennigaldi-Nanna's museum, built by Princess Ennigaldi in modern Iraq at the end of the Neo-Babylonian Empire.
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