“Technology continues to be used to change the way we experience museums and the ways we learn and absorb information.”
Source: Beyond the Halls: An Insider's Guide to Loving Museums
“When you make changes to preserve something, whether an artifact or an entire building, you risk altering the object and it’s history. However, if you don’t, you risk losing it entirely.”
Source: Beyond the Halls: An Insider's Guide to Loving Museums
“Museums are preserving the past and propelling us into the future.”
Source: Beyond the Halls: An Insider's Guide to Loving Museums
“How can we expect affluent white Southerners who control most plantation sites to tell the full and sometimes unsavory truth about their sites when the National Park Service does no better?”
“Museums preserve global and human history in a concrete way: they house the real thing.”
Source: Beyond the Halls: An Insider's Guide to Loving Museums
“At the end of the day, the most valuable things are not things, they are experiences, and museums foster experiences through things.”
Source: Beyond the Halls: An Insider's Guide to Loving Museums
“With faith and courage, face your mountains and do not be afraid.”
Source: Coming to Grips with the Mountains and Valleys of This World
“Though science and art are at odds with one another—competing for academic attention—they work beautifully together in the world of museums.”
Source: Beyond the Halls: An Insider's Guide to Loving Museums
“For many museums and libraries, there's a fear about getting involved in the contemporary issue--that you'll be pulled into the partisan times. I think you're gonna be pulled in no matter what. So the key is you should really, I think, do the best work you can to help a nation be made better. Yes, you're not gonna say that we're Democrat or Republican; what you're saying is that for the greater good of a nation, here are some of the ways we can move forward.”
“I think that the most important thing we can do as cultural institutions, as learning institutions, is really help the public become more comfortable with ambiguity. As a nation, we really look for simple answers to complex questions, and you see where that's gotten us. I think that what you want to do is help people understand the shades of gray, the nuance, the debates. I think if we could do that, regardless of what history, what culture we're teaching people, what's important is if you can get people to grapple with complexity, then we'd be a better nation.”