"Understanding the multi-layered nature of museums
and its goals, how many of you still cling to the notion of museum as art
temple/church?"

Piper,
Not to deny the significance of your own experience, but you seem to betray
a somewhate narrow view of the museum world.  It is indeed multi-layered and
art museums are only one small (but relatively well-funded) part of that
world.  In my own experience, it is the smell of a small history museum
(that peculiar combination of dust, mold, mildew or whatever) that invokes
an excited emotional response in me, but it's not a religious experience by
any means.

RT

Ron Twellman, Curator of Collections
EAA AirVenture Museum
P.O. Box 3065
Oshkosh, WI 54903-3065
920-426-5917


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