If I walked down by different streets to the Jardin du Luxembourg in the afternoon I could walk through the gardens and then go to the Musée du Luxembourg where the great paintings were that have now...
In the future, churches, mosques, synagogues and temples, all of them will be museums! The intellectual progression of humanity will necessitate such a drastic and dramatic change in the human history...
Our universities and museums are respected around the country.
Closing a museum to save money is like holding your breath to save oxygen...
I've become like one of those people I hate, the sort who go to the museum and, instead of looking at the magnificent Brueghel, take a picture of it, reducing it from art to proof. It's not Look what...
History is a madman's museum.
In poetically well built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we love, but by losing all sense of Time.
If he really wanted to be happy in the world, Horst? To have any kind of joyful or happy life? He should pay twenty grand to go back to his rapid detox place and then come here and smoke Buddha Haze a...
After all, isn't the purpose of the novel, or of a museum, for that matter, to relate our memories with such sincerity as to transform individual happiness into a happiness all can share?
Museums are like sports stadiums, hotels and hospitals: they are in the category of captive-audience dining.
People buy such bollocks at museums. They don't know what else to do once they're there.
The greatest treasures are not found in museums, but in our hearts.
Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.
This is the greatest consolation in life. In poetically well-built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we love, but by losing all sens...
The bus here because they lost Rosa Parks's bus.Who lost Rosa Parks's bus?White people. Who the fuck else? Supposedly, every February when schoolkids visit the Rosa Parks Museum, or wherever the fuck...
Education is the lifeblood of museums.
We passed hieroglyphic scrolls, gold jewelry, sarcophagi, statues of pharaohs, and huge chunks of limestone. Why would someone display a rock? Aren't there enough of those in the world?
She walked about disdainfully, unwilling to be enthusiastic over monuments of uncertain authorship or date.
We don't need more museums that try to construct the historical narratives of a society, community, team, nation, state, tribe, company, or species. We all know that the ordinary, everyday stories of...
Museum education has the power and the responsibility to do the challenging inner work of tackling tough topics and turning them into teachable moments.
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