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This reply from our Director might amuse some of you.
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Subject: Re: (Forwarded) Yeah, what does a curator do anyway
Bill, one of my favourite - or should it be favorite? - definitions
was, I think, by Thomas Carlyle, who described curators as:
"those industrious persons who rescue somewhat
from the deluge of time."
Should our personal motto, or mission statement as we now call it,
be "apres moi le deluge" ?
For our respected US colleagues, I would add that one of the best
descriptions of the good that can be brought to a person's life by a
museum is found in the pages of J D Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye".
But I'm sure that they all know that.Regards,
Tristram
Tristram Besterman
Director, Manchester Museum,
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Regards,
Bill P.
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