A museum label is a label describing an object exhibited in a museum or one introducing a room or area.[1][2]
At a minimum, museum labels should identify the creator, title, date, location, and materials of the work, insofar as these can be known. Ideally, museum labels should also include didactic information that can be related to wider ideas such as the history, culture, interpretation, and context of the work. [1][2]
^Woolley, Leonard (1982). Ur 'of the Chaldees'. P. R. S. Moorey, Leonard, Sir Woolley (Revised enlarged ed.). London: Herbert. ISBN0-906969-21-2. OCLC12460122. The room was a museum of local antiquities maintained by the princess Belshalti-Nannar, and in the collection was this clay drum, the earliest museum label known...