262 Quotes About Museums




  • Author Donna Tartt
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    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 and stand in a museum all day long.

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  • Author Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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    Truth is not the secret of a few'yetyou would maybe think sothe way somelibrariansand cultural ambassadors andespecially museum directorsactyou'd think they had a corneron itthe way theywalk around shaking their high heads andlooking as if they neverwent to the bathroom or anythingBut I wouldn't blame themif I were youThey say the Spiritual is best conceivedin abstract termsand then toowalking around in museums always makes mewant to'sit down'I always feel soconstipatedin thosehigh altitudes

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  • Author Stephen Jay Gould
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    The fossils were sublime, but I found as much fascination in the odd paraphernalia of culture that, for various reasons, end up in museum drawers. Late eighteenth century apothecary boxes, thread cases from the mills of Lawrence, Victorian cigar boxes of gaudy Cuban design - all the better to house fossils.

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  • Author Monica O Montgomery
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    In the spirit of being a reflective practitioner of ourselves we must notice your own behavior as an educator and realize how it influences other. Recognize your privileges: race, gender, ability, career, citizenship, language is all privilege. Imagine how you feel in the visitors shoes and adjust to best help them process and contextualize.

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