On Wed, 23 Apr 2003 09:51:56 -0400 Eugene Dillenburg
<[log in to unmask]> writes:

> 2) Does your organization have EXHIBITS?
>
> YES -- then you may or may not be a museum (aiports, shopping
> centers, etc.
> sometimes have exhibits, but are not museums)
>
> NO -- then I'm sorry, but you are not a museum.

OK, Eugene, by this definition the majority of university-associated
facilities that collect, identify, store, and make available to
researchers natural history specimens--jar after jar of dead turtles, for
instance--are not museums unless they have some of their stuff in a case
out in the hall. Am I reading your viewpoint correctly? Best.  [yet
another] David H.

David Haynes            [log in to unmask]            San Antonio


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