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🏛 The Museum

International Museum Day · May 18

💬 Words on Museums

Reflections on the meaning and purpose of museums from artists, curators, and thinkers.

"The museum is not meant to be a mausoleum. It is a place of encounter and enlightenment." — Kofi Annan
"Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity." — Lester Bangs
"The job of the museum is essentially to preserve the heritage of humanity for future generations." — Neil MacGregor
"Museums are about objects, and objects, whether natural or man-made, tell a story." — David Attenborough
"A museum is a place where nothing was ever contemporary." — Gertrude Stein
"The museum should not be a temple but a forum." — Albert C. Barnes
"In a museum, we are confronted by images and objects that exist outside our everyday context." — Susan Sontag
"A museum is an archive turned inside out." — Eugene Delacroix
"Every object in a museum was once brand new." — William Gibson
"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see." — Edgar Degas
"The past is never dead. It's not even past." — William Faulkner
"To enter a museum is to pass through a door into another world." — Philippe de Montebello