On Mon, 10 Oct 1994 18:50:25 -0400, Mario Rups wrote:
 
>A few months ago, there was a thread on odd / weird musea of the macabre or
>the occult, or of prisons.  (The subject came back in shadow form recently
>as deliberately funny musea.)
>
As long as we're digressing, Umberto Eco's Travels in Hyperreality should
interest most museum people; it's a Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Harvest
paperback, 1990 ($8.95).