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hello everybody,

I kept this topic in the eMail storager for a longer time, so I regret not to 
come up earlier with my remarks. Sorry. But: can anyone tell me, why both Disney 
and Gates, just to name the two antichrists of modern museum development, 
had/have their own collections?  It was, in my opinion, not because they used 
their ideas just to finance their hobbies. I think: It was, because they 
realized deep in their mind and stomach, that virtuality is nice for some 
moments, but reality lasts and refreshes much more and longer. Therefor museums 
are the "Lordsiegelbewahrer" of objects, carefully selected and exhibited in 
order to make them speak of "text" and "context" - but not in a historistic way, 
but, at least, to give hints, how we all could manager our lives better in 
present and future.

Dr. Christian Müller-Straten