I had to share this resource with you.

In Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture (vol.17 1987)There is a great
article by Paul Holdengraber, called " A Visible History of Art" about the
develope







ment of early museums as a " palace constructed, first, to honor the
infinite mobility of the eye ...... and next to domesticate the eye's
relentless movement."  I like the idea that even then museums were
dedicated not as a place to house great stuff but to inform and delight.
It was considered an alternative to the pedagogic learning that was the
classical ideal.

cool
Pat Strong


>One must include interpretation and  public education, otherwise all you
>have is a dusty and inaccessable library used by only a few...
>
>On Mon, 21 Aug 1995, Tom Vaughan wrote:
I think it was George Brown Goode who defined a museum as a "consultative
>> library of objects."  I've like that every since I first heard it, and it
>> fits the mission of cultural resource management, as it has defined itself
>> for me in 30 years of working with it...preserving information potential
>> (information is defined broadly here, to include the potential to awe,
>> inspire, etc.).
>>
>> That seems relevant to what museums are about.
>>
>> tom Vaughan
>> The Waggin' Tongue