Department Quote by Ai Weiwei

Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in it. They…

— Hans Haacke

Museums are like the quiet car of the world. It's a place you can come to escape, where there's authenticity, there's uniqueness, there's calm,…

— Thomas P. Campbell

Our universities and museums are respected around the country.

— Jane Byrne

I think everything belongs in a certain place, for kids who feel they don't belong anywhere. A museum is an institution like a library…

— Brian Selznick

Museums just seem to have this borrowed cachet—if I want to seem cultural, I will design something cultural. I resist the idea that culture…

— Thomas Heatherwick

Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative…

— Robert Hewison

Museums collect what's important in their respective countries. In Berlin's National Gallery, however, this isn't the case. They're interested neither in me nor the…

— Georg Baselitz

A museum is like a valuing machine. Museums and the industrial society started at the same moment, and they're really tied into each other.…

— Tino Sehgal

Museums, I love museums.

— Tony Randall

The most awful museums are in China. They have magnificent stuff on display and just the worst way of displaying it. They just don't…

— Elliott Erwitt

[Cultural departments] don't care about culture. Maybe they're the furthest from the people who understand culture.

— Ai Weiwei

I don't think China has professional museums - not in the past, present, or near future.

— Ai Weiwei