Stop looking at the walls, look out the window.

A guy at the National Museums Conference in Sydney recently said that cultural institutions were the place where we could start to reclaim democracy ? When 85 per cent of the polls were against going...

Do not fall in love with people like me. I will take you to museums, and parks, and monuments, and kiss you in every beautiful place, so that you can never go back to them...

We’re trying to make our message as clean and simple while providing a great supplement to our courthouses, museums and other attractions.

Museums, I love museums.

We used to build temples, and museums are about as close as secular society dares to go in facing up to the idea that a good building can change your life (and a bad one...

We are not on this earth to just stand still & look pretty. The museums already have enough statues.

When asked why he wrote the book, Freed said: In the 1980s, I joined the small group of anthropologists who were writing about the history of their subject. I believed that I could add some...

There are moments when one feels a desperate gratitude for museums, whatever their own ambiguous histories. Their objects from lost cities lead us back to who we are.

We know we are a species obsessed with itself and its own past and origins. We know we are capable of removing from the sanctuary of the earth shards and fragments, and gently placing them...

There are so many great galleries and museums in London, but they can be very crowded during the day.

For over a century, an evolving microcosm of Anthropology’s turbulent history has hidden behind the staid façade of the American Museum of Natural History. From an insider’s perspective, the well-known ethnologist Stan Freed engagingly introduces...

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 all know that the ordinary, everyday stories of individuals are riches,...

I’ve become like one of those people I hate, the sort who go to the museum and, instead of looking at the magnificent Brueghel, take a picture of it, reducing it from art to proof....

After all, isn’t the purpose of the novel, or of a museum, for that matter, to relate our memories with such sincerity as to transform individual happiness into a happiness all can share?

I actually got a chance to see the museum and it’s incredible, … The way they built it and the shapes and all the plans. I’m just happy to be a part of it.

This is the greatest consolation in life. In poetically well-built museums, formed from the heart’s compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we love, but by losing all sense of...

In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.

Brant had said my embellishing constituted a disservice to history and its players. But I believed the opposite. Marooning them on the forlorn island of Only What We Know, a place whose boundaries were determined...

Even though the museums guarding their precious property fence everything off, in my own studio, I made them so you and I could walk in and around, and among these sculptures.

Our stuff looks tinny compared to it.” At a time when commercial values are systematically corrupting the museum – one of civilized society’s most elevating experiences – the example of Kahn, among the most courageous...

If I walked down by different streets to the Jardin du Luxembourg in the afternoon I could walk through the gardens and then go to the Musée du Luxembourg where the great paintings were that...

When we want mood experiences, we go to concerts or museums. When we want meaningful emotional experience, we go to the storyteller.

The way Starr felt in church, that’s how I felt at the art museum, both safe and elevated.

There’s probably more history now preserved underwater than in all the museums of the world combined. And there’s no law governing that history. It’s finders keepers.