Museology is the field responsible for conserving precious works of art and items of historical significance for research and education. This field requires specialists with a strong humanities background and even media and technological skills to organize and manage both public and private assemblages.

Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the western most point of Eurasia, Europe is usually divided from Asia by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting the Black and Aegean Seas.