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An art museum or art gallery is a building or space for the exhibition of art, usually visual art.

Museums can be public or private, but what distinguishes a museum is the ownership of a collection.

Paintings are the most commonly displayed art objects; however, sculptures, decorative arts, furniture, textiles, costumes, drawings, pastels, watercolors, collages, prints, artist's books, photographs, and installation art are also regularly shown.

Although primarily concerned with providing a space to show works of visual art, art galleries are sometimes used to host other artistic activities, such as performance arts, music concerts, or poetry readings.

A work of art, artwork, art piece, piece of art or art object is an aesthetic physical item or artistic creation.

Apart from "work of art", which may be used of any work regarded as art in its widest sense, including works from literature and music, these terms apply principally to tangible, portable forms of visual art:

A museum is distinguished by a collection of often unique objects that forms the core of its activities for , education, research, etc.

This differentiates it from an archive or library, where the contents may be more paper-based, replaceable and less exhibition oriented, or a private collection of art formed by an individual, family or institution that may grant no public access.

A museum normally has a collecting policy for new acquisitions, so only objects in certain categories and of a certain quality are accepted into the collection.

The process by which an object is formally included in the collection is called accessioning and each object is given a unique accession number.

The visual arts are art forms such as ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, design, crafts, photography, video, filmmaking, literature, and architecture.

Many artistic disciplines (performing arts, conceptual art, textile arts) involve aspects of the visual arts as well as arts of other types.

Also included within the visual arts are the applied arts such as industrial design, graphic design, fashion design, interior design and decorative art.

A display case (showcase, display cabinet, or vitrine) is a cabinet with one or often more transparent glass (or plastic, normally acrylic for strength) surfaces, used to display objects for viewing.

A display case may appear in an exhibition, museum, retail store, restaurant, or house.

Often, labels are included with the displayed objects, providing information such as description or prices.

In a museum, the displayed cultural artifacts are normally part of the museum's collection, or are part of a temporary exhibition.

In retail or a restaurant, the items are normally being offered for sale.

A trophy case is used to display sports trophies or other awards.