Archaeologists Quote by D. H. Lawrence

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 museum should not just be a place for fancy paintings but should be a place where we can communicate our lives through our…

— Orhan Pamuk

I love museums, and I think they're fantastic, but they don't touch the people who I frequently think need to be touched with at…

— Bryan Stevenson

It is as much the conversations between objects as between us and objects that make museums so valuable.

— Antony Gormley

I wanted to design a museum in which everything would seem clear.

— Mario Botta

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

A lot of our insights are based on the ways in which people spend time at museums. They're curious, open, interested, and engaging. They…

— Jake Barton

A Children’s Museum, however, is more of a Funatorium. You are encouraged to touch things, which is poor training for subsequent museum visitation.

— James Lileks

“Museums are the anthropological screened porches of suburbia. You can be near something great, but not actually personally experience it.”

— S. Kelley Harrell

The moment you introduce difference into a museum, then the privileged space is contested, and under the most ideal circumstances what all artists want…

— Kerry James Marshall

The museum is full of interesting things. All kinds of paintings are there. And then paintings too thick to put in a frame, that…

— Marvin L. Cohen

People come to museums for storytelling and engagement, and the technology needs to facilitate that.

— Jake Barton