Hans wrote:
>
> I'm picking this up mid thread so forgive me if this has been covered.
>
> I work at a science museum and what minor collections we have is in a
> single archive room and none of it is displayed.  I suppose this is the
> reason my type of institution has been changing its name to science center.
> Nevertheless, I can assure we still perform a valuable function to the
> community at large.
>
> Not wanting to pick on anybody but Greg Shuman's "museum without
> collections" like a motorcar without engine, wheels and body reminds me
> what we use to call the Physics' for the Nonscientist back at University -
> Physics for Poets is like English for the illiterate, Music for the Deaf
> and Film for the Blind.  It is a very elitist attitude.  Instead of looking
> at what everybody has or does maybe we should be more interested in what
> they do with what they got.
>
> A few thoughts,
>
> H
>
> "Strap yourselves in.
> This flight's gonna suck and we don't serve peanuts."
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> Los Angeles, Exposition Park
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Hans:

I was replying to the "motorcar" comment given by someone else.  A
glitch did not show it as a quote I guess. Having spent over 9 years
in a collecting museum and the past 5 years in a non collecting musuem
I certainly feel that there is a lot to be benifited from
non-collecting institutions.