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“Museums tell stories so much better than textbooks do. And that's what history is, isn't it? It's just a really big story. That's what makes it important. And museums get that. Textbooks don't.”

Book:Out Now: Queer We Go Again!

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“Truth is not the secret of a few' yet you would maybe think so the way some librarians and cultural ambassadors and especially museum directors act you'd think they had a corner on it the way they walk around shaking their high heads and looking as if they never went to the bath room or anything But I wouldn't blame them if I were you They say the Spiritual is best conceived in abstract terms and then too walking around in museums always makes me want to 'sit down' I always feel so constipated in those high altitudes”

Truth Poetry Poem Museums Libraries Pretensions Snobbiness

Book:A Coney Island of the Mind

Source: A Coney Island of the Mind

“I climbed the wide stone steps to the museum and walked in. As soon as you are through the doors, the air changes. It is softer. The building has the ability to wrap itself around you, making you feel safe. All the animosity if the street is left outside, for everyone in there has come for the same reason. To be humbled by art.”

Art Museums

Book:The Godmother

Source: The Godmother

“The reading-room?" “Of the British Museum. I go there every day.” “You do? I've only been there once. I'm afraid I found it rather a depressing place. It—it seemed to sap one's vitality." "It doe. That's why I go there. The lower one's vitality, the more sensitive one is to great art.”

Art Museums

Book:Enoch Soames: A Memory of the Eighteen-Nineties

Source: Enoch Soames: A Memory of the Eighteen-Nineties

“How funny things are! You go to those museums and galleries and think what a damned bore they are and then, when you least expect it, you find that something you've seen comes in useful. It shows art and all that isn't really waste of time.”

Art Theater Museums Art Gallery

Book:Theatre

Source: Theatre

“Some chains will break when you climb certain mountains as an act of faith.”

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Book:Coming to Grips with the Mountains and Valleys of This World

Source: Coming to Grips with the Mountains and Valleys of This World

“With museums, I am at best stealing creative yeasts with which to make my strange pastries later. This is why we call it culture.”

Art Culture Museums Yeast

Book:Holidays with Bigfoot

Source: Holidays with Bigfoot

“Museums always take a point of view by what they choose to exhibit and what they decide not to exhibit.”

Point Of View Museums Exhibitions Neutrality

Author:Lonnie G. Bunch III

“One can tell a great deal about a country by what it remembers. By what graces the wall of its museums. And what monuments have privileged placement in parks or central traffic intersections. And what holidays and patriotic songs are the bane and balm to generations of school children. Yet one learns even more about a nation by what it forgets. What moments of evil, disappointment, and defeat are downplayed or eliminated from the national narratives. Often in the United States the issues of race and the centrality of African American culture are given short shrift in textbooks, popular chronicles, and national memories.”

Race History Racism Memory Museums African Americans Blacks Monuments

Book:A Fool's Errand: Creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the Age of Bush, Obama, and Trump

Source: A Fool's Errand: Creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the Age of Bush, Obama, and Trump

“Were we all to create and curate a museum illustrating the essence of our beings, how might each one of these museums look like? Each article cradled within the museum’s walls, perceived through the eyes of the visitor as so plainly ordinary, in fact wields the power to evoke intense emotions redolent of lost loves, if we only ventured to uncover their stories.”

Stories Museums Being

Book:The Desire for Elsewhere

Source: The Desire for Elsewhere

“Museums are my cathedrals. Artifacts in glass cases are my sacred relics. I truly believe I have felt something close to religious fervor inside some of these buildings. I even feel that I have experienced the occasional transcendent moment inside a museum.”

God Religion Spirituality Museums

Book:50 Reasons People Give for Believing in a God

Source: 50 Reasons People Give for Believing in a God

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