<Li> Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, Ontario (1912--present) </Li> <P> The design of museums has evolved throughout history . However, museum planning involves planning the actual mission of the museum along with planning the space that the collection of the museum will be housed in . Intentional museum planning has its beginnings with the museum founder and librarian John Cotton Dana . Dana detailed the process of founding the Newark Museum in a series of books in the early 20th century so that other museum founders could plan their museums . Dana suggested that potential founders of museums should form a committee first, and reach out to the community for input as to what the museum should supply or do for the community . According to Dana, museums should be planned according to community's needs: </P> <P> "The new museum...does not build on an educational superstition . It examines its community's life first, and then straightway bends its energies to supplying some the material which that community needs, and to making that material's presence widely known, and to presenting it in such a way as to secure it for the maximum of use and the maximum efficiency of that use ." </P> <P> The way that museums are planned and designed vary according to what collections they house, but overall, they adhere to planning a space that is easily accessed by the public and easily displays the chosen artifacts . These elements of planning have their roots with John Cotton Dana, who was perturbed at the historical placement of museums outside of cities, and in areas that were not easily accessed by the public, in gloomy European style buildings . </P>

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