I think that I like David Haberstich's restaurant
analogy best of all: it is silly to think of collections to the exclusion
of visitors and other users, likewise, it is silly to consider the visitors and
other users to the exclusion of the collection (even collection-less museums use
something as a jumping off point for their lessons!).
To quote Rodney King: Can't we all just get
along? (and this is definitely a problem that works both
ways)
Claudia Nicholson
Unemployed
curator-on-the-loose