SUGGESTION:  How about dropping Eugene's name from the
subject line?

Gene is probably one of the most solid, rational
members of this list.  Rarely does he inspire
controversy (and I know there's been a lot more than
controversy in this discussion; there have been some
great outcroppings).

I know that when my name ends up in the subject line
volleyed for days, it irks the heck out of me.  I
think Gene deserves a little more courtesy than to
have him be pish-poshed this way.




--- "David E. Haberstich" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> In a message dated 4/22/2003 1:45:47 AM Eastern
> Daylight Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
> << The argument over what is a museum, what makes a
> museum, is probably
>  intractable, and I have no desire to resurrect it
> here.  My point is that
>  simply having a collection does not make an
> institution a museum.  I have a
>  large collection of Hawaiian shirts, ugly ties, and
> baseball caps from
>  around the world.  Does that make my closet a
> museum?  I don't think so. >>
>
> Gene, OF COURSE having a private collection doesn't
> make you a museum, but
> neither does having your collection on public
> exhibition make you a museum.
> Opening your closet to the public will not make it a
> museum.  Neither will
> removing your closet artifacts and placing them in
> exhibit cases and framing
> some of them to put on the wall, then adding
> interpretive labels, make a
> museum.  ("This is the ugly tie which Eugene
> insisted on wearing to his
> senior prom, leading to the breach with his parents
> which drove him to join
> the French Foreign Legion," etc.')  Not even if you
> add an interactive
> computer setup, book school tours, and run Cub Scout
> camp-ins in your home on
> Saturday nights will you have a museum!
>


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