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I am pretty much a novice but I had to share this resource with you.
In Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture (vol.17 1987)There is a great
article by Paul Holdengraber, called " A Visible History of Art" about the
develope ment of early museums as a " palace constructed, first, to honor
the infinite mobility of the eye ...... and next to domesticate the eye's
relentless movement." I like the idea that even then museums were
dedicated not as a place to house great stuff but to inform and delight.
It was considered an alternative to the pedagogic learning that was the
classical ideal.
cool
Pat Strong
>One must include interpretation and public education, otherwise all you
>have is a dusty and inaccessable library used by only a few...
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>On Mon, 21 Aug 1995, Tom Vaughan wrote:
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>> I think it was George Brown Goode who defined a museum as a "consultative
>> library of objects." I've like that every since I first heard it, and it
>> fits the mission of cultural resource management, as it has defined itself
>> for me in 30 years of working with it...preserving information potential
>> (information is defined broadly here, to include the potential to awe,
>> inspire, etc.).
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>> That seems relevant to what museums are about.
>>
>> tom Vaughan
>> The Waggin' Tongue
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>> Tom Vaughan
>>
>> The Waggin' Tongue
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