Do not fall in love with people like me. I will take you to museums, and parks, and monuments, and kiss you in every beautiful place, so that you can never go back to them without tasting me like blood in your mouth. I will destroy you in the most beautiful way possible. And when I leave you will finally understand, why storms are named after people.
When asked why he wrote the book, Freed said: In the 1980s, I joined the small group of anthropologists who were writing about the history of their subject. I believed that I could add some balance to American anthropological history, and that the best place to start was with museums— where the story began. The more I delved into the archives, the more I was fascinated. I was hooked.
Faced with the unfamiliar, we the public have been trained to rely on museums, like schools, to serve up art and culture like pieces of pie: little wedges of esthetics, criticism, politics and history.
Museum education has the power and the responsibility to do the challenging inner work of tackling tough topics and turning them into teachable moments.
Tough topics are only tough for those who don't want to approach conversation, who don't like problematizing the status quo and nuancing the narrative.
Education is the lifeblood of museums.
Much of what's called 'public' is increasingly a private good paid for by users - ever-higher tolls on public highways and public bridges, higher tuitions at so-called public universities, higher admission fees at public parks and public museums.
In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.
I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.
Numerous are the posthumous museums and memorials devoted exclusively to one artist, architect or author and designed to preserve or artificially reconstruct the namesake's original working or living conditions.
There are so many great galleries and museums in London, but they can be very crowded during the day.
Museums are custodians of epiphanies, and these epiphanies enter the central nervous system and deep recesses of the mind.
Museums are like sports stadiums, hotels and hospitals: they are in the category of captive-audience dining.
A society - any society - is defined as a set of mutual benefits and duties embodied most visibly in public institutions: public schools, public libraries, public transportation, public hospitals, public parks, public museums, public recreation, public universities, and so on.
Yes, my works... are enshrined in museums, but I don't care if the pieces fall apart in 20 years.
I grew up in a town where there were no galleries, no museums, no theaters - a very religious, ultraconservative community.
Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.
The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums.
The itinerary of most antiquities from their source - tomb, temple, quarry - to the shelves of museums or private collectors is murky and often purposely concealed.
