THE ORIGIN OF MUSEUM

The word museum is of Ancient Greek origin. In Greek , ‘museion’ meant a sanctuary (where something is kept and protected or given shelter) dedicated to the muses ( those that think about something carefully or thoroughly or to become absorbed in thoughts )and regarded as an institution of advanced learning in scientific and philosophical ideas. The muses were the 9 goddesses, daughters of the god Zeus , credited with an infinite memory in the art and sciences. Zeus was the husband of hera. The king of their gods. They had been practicing the Greek city myths in their days. 
If there was a war people ran to the museum because it was highly protected. 
Astrologers they know the movement of the planet , starts , they can also predict what will happen.  It was to their excellent wisdom and learning that a building was erected, called a museum. The name museum was first adopted in 200BC for a privately owned research institute in Egypt(Africa) called the museum of Alexandria. 
In 1693 , the first public museum was originally owned by an English scholar, Alias Ashmole , primarily for the collection of objects of curiosity (desire to know)and was established at Oxford university. 
In 1943 , ( Nigeria operated a government, sir Arthur Richard) the colonial government set up the antiquities services in Nigeria, and in 1953(macpherson ) it became a department of antiquities. The first head of antiquities service was a Briton called Kenneth Murray. In 1977,(obasanjo) the name was changed to national commission for museums and monuments till date.  National museum uyo was established in April 1989.