I love the Strong Museum, but it's important to note that for the most part it is a repository of domestic objects, with relatively few things related to work. It's a brilliant study of what happens to a culture when the ownership of the means of production moves out of the household. The collection focuses on the period before household technology was mechanized, making the house in the early 20th century place for "More Work for Mother," as Ruth Schwartz Cowen's book calls it. Maybe all these PCs and laser printers, and all these electronic tsatchkes we have, are changing things again. Museums of everyday life inevitably partake of definitions of what is truly ordinary. Richard Rabinowitz On Wed, 17 Jan 1996, Bernard Barryte wrote: > REPLY TO 01/17/96 05:02 FROM [log in to unmask] "Museum discussion list": > every day culture > > Since everyone else seem to be replying publically, I will simply > mention the Strong Museum in Rochester, NY as a great repository for > artifacts of everyday life. It is something like a mini-Smithsonian > in its depth and scope. > B. Barryte/Stanford University Museum of Art > > To: [log in to unmask] >