141 Quotes by Lucy Worsley

I like to wear clothes that have some kind of relationship with the past.

Curating isn't just a matter of taste. It involves building up real knowledge of the items in your care. As the world gets quicker, and shallower, and bite-sized, retaining our ability to take a deep dive into history is more and more important.

In big museums, the role of the curator has shrunk in recent years as different branches of curatorial work - such as interpretation, or learning, or conservation - have split off and become professions of their own.

Lots of items that survive from the past are high-status, valuable things that people have treasured.

Working in a museum has given me a connection to people - to the rest of humanity - that I never had before.

My father is a geologist and he really thinks that scientists are going to save the world, so he wanted me to be one.