Quotes about Museums

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Do not fall in love with people like me. I will take you to museums, and parks, and monuments, and kiss you in every bea — Caitlyn Siehl, Literary Sexts: A Collection of Short & Sexy Love Poems
Museum education has the power and the responsibility to do the challenging inner work of tackling tough topics and turn — Monica O Montgomery
Tough topics are only tough for those who don't want to approach conversation, who don't like problematizing the status — Monica O Montgomery
Education is the lifeblood of museums. — Monica O Montgomery
When asked why he wrote the book, Freed said: In the 1980s, I joined the small group of anthropologists who were writing — Stanley A. Freed, Anthropology Unmasked: Museums, Science, and Politics in New York City
Another glorious feature of many modern science museums is a movie theater showing IMAX or OMNIMAX films. In some cases — Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Stop looking at the walls, look out the window. — Karl Pilkington, The Ricky Gervais Show - First, Second and Third Seasons
We don't need more museums that try to construct the historical narratives of a society, community, team, nation, state, — Orhan Pamuk, The Innocence of Objects
I've become like one of those people I hate, the sort who go to the museum and, instead of looking at the magnificent Br — David Sedaris, Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls
I thought of the cool, fresh air of the city I'd always dreamed of living in. The art museums and trolleys and the myste — Heather Demetrios, I'll Meet You There
I've never been somewhere I belonged, but there are places where I think I could be happy. Like San Francisco. Well, do — Heather Demetrios, I'll Meet You There
Don't go to a museum with a destination. Museums are wormholes to other worlds. They are ecstasy machines. — Jerry Saltz
As once-colonized nations seek to stand on their own, the countries once denuded of their past seek to assert their inde — Sharon Waxman, Loot: The Battle over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World
As cultural politics change, museums change with them. — Sharon Waxman, Loot: The Battle over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World
I used to wonder: Do only ignorant laypeople gaze on the colossal bust of Ramses II at the British Museum and ask themse — Sharon Waxman, Loot: The Battle over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World
In bluntest terms, art museums risk being commercial institutions in which art is subsumed by economics and the experien — Amy Whitaker, Museum Legs: Fatigue and Hope in the Face of Art
For over a century, an evolving microcosm of Anthropology’s turbulent history has hidden behind the staid façade of the — Ian Tattersall
Brant had said my embellishing constituted a disservice to history and its players. But I believed the opposite. Marooni — Leah Hager Cohen, House Lights
Closing a museum to save money is like holding your breath to save oxygen... — Nanette L. Avery
History is a madman's museum. — Jeanette Winterson, The Powerbook