On Sat, 15 Apr 2000 16:18:55 -0400 Regina Bacote <[log in to unmask]>
writes:
> .... The firm that did the study said 'museum' is becoming an unpopular
label.  People no longer want to visit a museum, they want a 'Center' or
something else........

> Jerrie,
> I also think the word "Center" is being overused in this day and time
and confusing people as to what exactly goes on at the place simply
called a "Center".   Case in point, we have a theatre which has been
donned the Edna Boykin  Cultural Center. NO ONE knows what the heck
happens there..........Now why not just call it the Edna Boykin Theatre?
Because it's not pc.......


Holy Cow!  I must be getting old or something.  What do you mean "Center"
is overused?  How the heck else will you describe something that is not
exactly a museum, yet is a Cultural bastion to the community?  And how
can renaming a building be "not pc?"   We just don't have enough
information here about the renaming of Edna's Theater (which I think
would make for a great ceremony and grand ribbon cutting occasion).  May
even give them more members who can disseminate the knowledge about the
need for Edna's Theater's very survival!  And it's good to know that
Regina isn't all for pc in this instance as she may have hit the nail on
the head about renaming this particular cultural center (I vote for
Edna's Theater)!

People just LOVE going to museums.  There are too many examples of that
when you read the articles and surveys in general newspapers or Museum
News or Curator or Prologue or History News, and on, and on.   We at the
Nixon Library are inherently a museum, but we don't actually have that
word in our title.  Don't let some "cutting edge" firm tell you that you
shouldn't use museum in your title; we are always at pains to describe
our Library as including an Archives and  Museum, and yes indeed we do
have permanent collections.

O
Olivia S. Anastasiadis, Curator
Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace
18001 Yorba Linda Blvd.
Yorba Linda, CA  92886
(714) 993-5075 ext. 224; (714) 528-0544

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