This document discusses various types of man-made resources including museums, zoos, botanical gardens, hospitals, and research centers. Museums preserve artifacts and objects for public viewing through exhibits. Zoos confine and display animals to the public and may breed animals. Botanical gardens collect, cultivate, and display plants and provide education to visitors. Hospitals provide patient treatment using specialized staff and equipment. Research centers focus on research in specific areas to increase knowledge and solve problems. All of these resources have become important to support human activities and development.

1. MAN-MADE RESOURCES
-MUSEUM
-ZOO
-BOTANICAL GARDEN
-HOSPITALS
-RESEARCH CENTERS
Submitted on - 16-8-2014
Submitted to- Soya P
Submitted by- Umadevi B

2. INTRODUCTION
All types of resources are necessary for better
life of human beings. There are different types of
resources present in the earth such as natural
resources, manmade resources, and human
resources. Manmade resources are important in our
life because every activity of human being is
supported by manmade resources some examples of
manmade resources are botanical garden, zoo,
hospital, museum, research centres.etc

3. MUSEUM
Museum is an institution that cares for
(conserve) a collection of artifacts and other objects
of scientific, artistic, cultural or historical
importance and makes them available for public
viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or
temporary. Museums have varying aims, ranging
from serving researchers and specialists to serving
the general public. The continuing acceleration in
the digitization of information, combined with the
increasing capacity of digital information storage, is
causing the traditional model of museums to expand
to include virtual exhibits and high resolution
images of their collections for perusal, study and
exploration from any place with internet. The city
with largest number of museums is Mexico City
with over 128 museums.

4. ZOO
A zoo (short for zoological park or zoological
garden and also called menagerie) is a facility in
which animals are confined within enclosures,
displayed to the public, and in which they may also
be bred.
The term zoological garden refers to zoology,
the study of animals, a term deriving from the Greek
zoon ( animal) and logos (study).The abbreviation
‘zoo’ was first used of the London Zoological
Gardens, which opened for scientific study in 1828
and to the public in 1847. The no. of major animal
collections open to the public around the world now
exceeds 1000 around 80% of them in cities.
The term Zoological Park was used in 1891 and
1899 respectively. Relatively new terms for zoos
coined in the late 20th century are “Conservation
Park” or “Bio-park”. The term Bio-park was 1st
coined and developed by the National Zoo in

5. Washington D.C in late 1980s. in 1993, the New
York Zoological Society changed its name to the
“wildlife conservation society” and rebranded the
Zoos under its jurisdiction as “wildlife conservation
park”.

6. BOTANICAL GARDENS
A Botanical Garden (or botanic garden) is a
garden dedicated to the collection, cultivation and
display of a wide range of plants labeled with their
botanical names. It may contain specialist plant
collections such as cacti and succulent plants, herb
gardens, plants from particular parts of the world,
and so on; there may be green houses, shade houses,
again with special collections such as tropical plants,
alpine plants, or other exotic plants. Visitor services
at a botanical garden might include tours,
educational displays, art exhibitions, book rooms
and musical performances and other entertainments.
Botanical gardens are often run by universities
or other scientific research organizations and often
have associated herbaria and research programs in
plant taxonomy. In principle, their all is to maintain
documented collections of living plants for the
purposes of scientific research, conservation display
and education, although this will depend on the

7. resources available and the special interest persuade
at each particular garden.

8. HOSPITAL
A hospital is health care institution providing
patient treatment with specialized staff and
equipments. Hospitals are usually funded by the
public sector, by health organizations, health
insurance companies or charities, including direct
charitable donations. Historically, hospitals were
often founded and funded by religious orders or
charitable individuals and leaders. Today hospitals
are largely staffed by professional physicians,
surgeons, and nurses whereas in the past, this work
was usually performed by the founding religious
orders. However there are various Catholic religious
orders, such as the Alexians and the Bonsecours
sisters, which still focus on hospital ministry today,
as well as Christian denominations, including the
Methodists and Lutherans, which run hospital. In
accord with the original meaning of the word,
hospitals were originally “places of hospitality”, and

9. this meaning is still preserved in names of some
institution such as Royal Hospital Chelsea
established 1681.

10. RESEARCH CENTERS
Research center is a facility or building
dedicated to research commonly with the focus on a
specific area. Research comprises “creative work
undertaken on a systematic basis in order to increase
a stock of knowledge including knowledge of man,
culture and society, and the use of this stock of
knowledge to devise new applications”. It is used to
establish or confirm facts, reaffirm the result of
previous work, solve new or existing problems,
support theorems or develop new theorems. A
research project may also be an expansion on past
work in the field. The primary purposes of basic
research are documentation, discovery and
interpretation or the research and development of
methods and the systems for the advancement of
human knowledge. There are several forms of

11. research- scientific, humanities, artistic, economic,
social, etc.
CONCLUSION
Man made resources are inevitable for the
present day human life. These resources are part of
the development of human civilization. When
human civilization develops, the needs of manmade
resources also increase.