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“We don't need more museums that try to construct the historical narratives of a society, community, team, nation, state, tribe, company, or species. We…

— Orhan Pamuk

We console ourselves with the comfortable fallacy that a single museum piece will do, ignoring the clear dictum of history that a species must…

— Aldo Leopold

“The great museums may harbour the conscience for the natural world, not merely provide its catalogue.”

— Richard Fortey

Museums, museums, object-lessons rigged out to illustrate the unsound theories of archaeologists, crazy attempts to co-ordinate and get into a fixed order that which…

— D. H. Lawrence

A wise and well-informed humanist has taken the time to look lovingly and wonderingly at the living world around him, and to study the…

— Marston Bates

Every museum is full of nice things. That's the opposite of before. It was important things or serious things. Now we have interesting things.

— Gerhard Richter

Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks.

— Roger Caras

“The Natural History Museum is open to the public on Tuesdays and Fridays. Elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus; extraordinary animals! Rubens rendered them marvelously. I had…

— Eugene Delacroix

If every museum in the New World were emptied, if every famous building in the Old World were destroyed and only Venice saved, there…

— Evelyn Waugh

What if everything in a museum is crap? It's entirely possible; it's not the end of the world.

— David Salle

We should explore ways to make us a more amazing species. A more fascinating society. We should embrace our innovations and evolve with them.

— Brad Feld

We need to be moral archaeologists to pull out how we understand the world

— Yosef Abramowitz