This reply from our Director might amuse some of you.
 
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Bill, one of my favourite - or should it be favorite? - definitions
was, I think, by Thomas Carlyle, who described curators as:
 
     "those industrious persons who rescue somewhat
               from the deluge of time."
 
Should our personal motto, or mission statement as we now call it,
be "apres moi le deluge" ?
 
For our respected US colleagues, I would add that one of the best
descriptions of the good that can be brought to a person's life by a
museum is found in the pages of J D Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye".
But I'm sure that they all know that.Regards,
Tristram
 
 
Tristram Besterman
Director, Manchester Museum,
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Regards,
Bill P.
 
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