It strikes me that all this
soul-searching to seek the definition of a museum is a trifle pretentious
and distinctly overdone. What we should be worrying about is keeping
museums open in the face of public and private pressures and/or
indifference, rather than attempting to define their essence; because if
matters continue as they are, we shall have abundant time to debate what the
definition of a museum was, in the days when they still existed.
R. G. Doty
President, ICOMON
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