Re: Jim Swanson's comments about museums not being truly significant: buddy,
you're in the wrong line of work or else you are badly in need of a vacation,
if this is how you feel!
 
Attitudes like yours are the last thing those of us in the museum field need,
being already underpaid, overworked and generally harassed.  In spite of the
drawbacks, I don't feel the history of museums justifies your negativism.
Museums have and continue to play an important role in the history and
evolution of culture, and serve as a forum for ideas that affect many lives
in  positive ways.  Just ask the visitors who walk through your doors!
 
Teresa Ebie
Roswell Museum and Art Center, New Mexico