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is a kind of ocular syllabus of human knowledge.

My friend Macdonald Throckmorten, once the curator of a small museum in Nova Scotia, likes to say that a museum is a memorial or celebratory repository. His first cousin, Basingborn, who is more inclined towards the conceptual side of things, argues that a museum is a kind of ocular syllabus of human knowledge.

a museum is a kind of ocular syllabus of human knowledge. My friend Macdonald Throckmorten, once the curator of a small museum in Nova Scotia, likes to say that a museum is a memorial or celebratory repository. His first cousin, Basingborn, who is more inclined towards the conceptual side of things, argues that a museum is a kind of ocular syllabus of human knowledge.

is a place in which to show a number of treasures of art to all kinds of visitors in a manner to be worthy of the objects and to create pleasure in them.

Klenze argued that a museum is 'a place in which to show a number of treasures of art to all kinds of visitors in a manner to be worthy of the objects and to create pleasure in them' (cited in Pevsner, 1976, p.126).

is a place where one should lose one's head.

A museum is a place where one should lose one's head.

is never to be trusted, because, broadly speaking, the museum lives off of the art and artifacts of others, often having been obtained by dubious means.

I personally have never trusted museums. ... It is because museums, broadly speaking, live off of the art and artifacts of others, often art and artifacts that have been obtained by dubious means. But they also manipulate whatever it is they present to the public... hence, until Judy Chicago, in the 1970s ... few women artists were hung in any major museum. Indian artists' Artifacts only, please. Black artists' Something musical, maybe' And so forth.

is the heaping together of paintings by old masters. It is a catastrophe. Similar to how a collection of a hundred great brains makes only one big fathead.

The heaping together of paintings by Old Masters in museums is a catastrophe... likewise, a collection of a hundred Great Brains makes one big fathead. Carl Jung

is great when it preserves life while all other museums preserve death.

Only a great art museum preserves life... all other museums preserve death.

is less a gallery of living portraits and more a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.

I can never pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.

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