AUTOPOESIS was stirring! I won't do an archeology of knowledge Foucault rap, tho tempted... Of course Musuems have an history... mostly a coursing of the power elites and the shaping of social constructions of reality-- across all disciple-plines. It's fun, if a bit too au cour, to pratice a tad of self-flexivity in Musuems presenting THEMSELVES and their histories as cultural iconog. Still, too, there's a resonance of BOTH mystical numinosity [sic] and quasi-radical rebellion against the status quo, while reaffirming...think Notre Dame, and the Masonic lights of Chartres Or naybe I'm overtired from writing grants to try and actually pay the Curate-ors, Lois Lois Brynes New England Science Center