262 Quotes About Museums
- Author Rick Riordan
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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?
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- Author Alain de Botton
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We used to build temples, and museums are about as close as secular society dares to go in facing up to the idea that a good building can change your life (and a bad one ruin it).
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- Author Richard Fortey
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Museums have no political power, but they do have the possibility of influencing the political process. This is a complete change from their role in the early days of collecting and hoarding the world to one of using the collections as an archive for a changing world. This role is not merely scientifically important, but it is also a cultural necessity.
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- Author Barbara Kingsolver
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But you don't ask questions of an attic. Museums are their own justification.
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- Author Marty Rubin
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The amusement park was our best invention; the museum, our worst.
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- Author N.K. Jemisin
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I go to museums sometimes. They're cool inside, and Neil deGrasse Tyson is hot.
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- Author Jerry Saltz
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Don't go to a museum with a destination. Museums are wormholes to other worlds. They are ecstasy machines.
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- Author Nazım Hikmet
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To visit a museum is fine, to be a museum piece is terrible!- Gioconda and Si-Ya-U
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- Author Jeanette Winterson
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History is a madman's museum.
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