Natural world Quote by Richard Fortey

“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

“Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place with curators in museums; others we take for walks.”

— Roger Caras

“We know we are a species obsessed with itself and its own past and origins. We know we are capable of removing from the…

— Kathleen Jamie

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

— S. Kelley Harrell

“This world is a museum. You can see and know, eat and drink, but you cannot take anything out of it. Do not get…

— Dada Bhagwan

“The burden shouldn't be on the artist to make things the public understands, nor should it be on the museum to show only things…

— Marcia Tucker

“Museums hold collections in trust for future generations. It is our responsibility to see that these objects—representing the cultural heritage of more than 8,000…

— Holly Witchey

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

The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the edification and…

— Martin Filler

“I love museums more than any other institution the human race has invented. Museum people are always overworked and underpaid, and they all deserve…

— Robert T. Bakker

“It seems that in order to inscribe themselves upon the heart of humanity with everlasting claims, all great things have first to wander about…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“You live in the greatest museum imaginable. Isn't it time you left the lobby and took a look at some of the incredible exhibits?”

— Ron Lizzi