sorry... I love museums and regularly speak at AAM...BUT I do not think many small or medium sized museums will be around in the future.... All museums have over the dreaded theme park...is education and authenticity. Now theme parks are in to education and "museum-like experiences"...so that leaves authenticity...among, what in many museums is perceived as a smug, self-serving group of professionals...will authenticity be enough? Our kids are growing up in a digital world for which we have no frame of reference..will traveling to a museum to be lectured at and see and "authentic" object drive them in the future? Who knows... Certainly current museum professionals cannot imagine a life like that...but closing their eyes and announcing "how important" museums are is not the answer...connection with the public is... D. Neil Bremer, Museum Consultant Bremer Communications http://members.aol.com/bremcom [log in to unmask]