Country Quote by Robert Hewison

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

I believe profoundly in the importance of museums; I would go as far as to say that you can judge a society by the…

— Richard Fortey

Museums provide places of relaxation and inspiration. And most importantly, they are a place of authenticity. We live in a world of reproductions -…

— Thomas P. Campbell

“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

Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and…

— Orhan Pamuk

A country that has few museums is both materially poor and spiritually poor...Museums, like theaters and libraries, are a means to freedom.

— Wendy Beckett

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

What I think museums do very well is that they say to a public, "We have some stuff that's worth looking at."

— Theaster Gates

Museums are good things, places to look and absorb and learn.

— Alan King

The museums used to be exhibition halls for government propaganda, and now every city wants to build a museum. A few thousand are to…

— Ai Weiwei

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