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Hans wrote:
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> I'm picking this up mid thread so forgive me if this has been covered.
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> I work at a science museum and what minor collections we have is in a
> single archive room and none of it is displayed. I suppose this is the
> reason my type of institution has been changing its name to science center.
> Nevertheless, I can assure we still perform a valuable function to the
> community at large.
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> Not wanting to pick on anybody but Greg Shuman's "museum without
> collections" like a motorcar without engine, wheels and body reminds me
> what we use to call the Physics' for the Nonscientist back at University -
> Physics for Poets is like English for the illiterate, Music for the Deaf
> and Film for the Blind. It is a very elitist attitude. Instead of looking
> at what everybody has or does maybe we should be more interested in what
> they do with what they got.
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> A few thoughts,
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> H
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> "Strap yourselves in.
> This flight's gonna suck and we don't serve peanuts."
> - Lt. Cooper Hawkes "...Tell Our Moms We Done Our Best"
> Space: Above and Beyond
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> Hans Hinners [log in to unmask]
> California Museum of Science and Industry
> Los Angeles, Exposition Park
> (No, we don't have any dinosaurs. - Ha, laugh it's a joke.)
> (213) 744 - 2504 (213) 744 - 2034 FAX
> ___________________________________________________________________
> Unless otherwise noted my scribbles are my own and do not represent those
> of my benevolent employer.
Hans:
I was replying to the "motorcar" comment given by someone else. A
glitch did not show it as a quote I guess. Having spent over 9 years
in a collecting museum and the past 5 years in a non collecting musuem
I certainly feel that there is a lot to be benifited from
non-collecting institutions.
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