One must include interpretation and  public education, otherwise all you
have is a dusty and inaccessable library used by only a few...

On Mon, 21 Aug 1995, Tom Vaughan wrote:

> 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.).
>
> 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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