Audience Quote by Scotty Cameron

Museums have no political power, but they do have the possibility of influencing the political process. This is a complete change from their role…

— Richard Fortey

I don't like museums; there's nothing to buy.

— Violet Trefusis

We live in what virtually amounts to a museum - which does not happen to a lot of people.

— Prince Philip

“Films featuring museums are on the whole, not serious ones. They are mostly comedies, mild thrillers, romances, and horror movies, with a few disaster…

— Suzanne Keene

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

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

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

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

— S. Kelley Harrell

In China, we don't have any contemporary art museums. Until a few years ago, we didn't even have a gallery.

— Ai Weiwei

I came from a background where access to museum culture was rarely granted, and, when you got it, people wondered what the hell you…

— Kehinde Wiley

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 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