At 11:00 AM 04/14/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>I disagree.  I'm my mind, museums are any institution that supplies
>information on topics through exhibition, example, and activities in order
>to inform, educate, and entertain.  This does not require a collection
>merely imagination and ingenuity.

To be a museum it certainly does require objects to inform.  Who hasn't
been bored with lots of graphics and text with little "stuff" to see?

Perhaps the real issue with the Texas State History Museum is that the
politicians who created it did not see the need for collecting.  The TSHM
is borrowing every object it displays from other institutions and private
collectors.  It takes a collecting museum or individual to make the TSHM a
"real" museum that informs, educates and entertains.

Yes, they are borrowing objects from this collecting Museum.  It's yet
another venue for our collections so I'm glad to lend to them.  I can still
be a little bitter at the politicians who are underwriting the IMAX but not
the collections.

Sally


Sally Baulch-Rhoden
Collections Manager
Cultural History Division
Texas Memorial Museum
512/232-5511, 512/471-4794 fax


Science is a Cultural Construct

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