The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.
The 19th century became the age of the museum. Objects were scrambled for, specimens seized, and friezes and antiques grasped.
Visiting a museum is a matter of going from void to void.
It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.
I'm in a museum. I'm a relic.
We are similar to a museum. My function is to present old masterpieces in modern frames.
The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye.
The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.
I bought a year's production of flax from a single field owned by a Dutch producer. That's 10,000 kilograms of flax, enough to enable industrial level production. Now, I'm weaving it into tablecloths, tea towels, and other items at the Textile Museum in Tilburg. I'm producing hundreds of grown-up products!
I love the Prado in Madrid. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston is also great.
Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
Many visitors to Chicago know the Loop, the shops on the Magnificent Mile, and the Museum Campus. Meanwhile, much of the bustle is in the developing neighborhoods around the Loop: North, South and West.
A museum's meticulous presentation - exhaustive captions, hushed lighting, state-of-the-art armature - creates an institutional authority that is constructed to seem impregnable.
There are wonderful museums with lots of photographs of 1920's musicals.
You can't visit Guanajuato without going to the mummy museum.
The British Museum is great for seeing how excellent we were at stealing things.
I wanted to design a museum in which everything would seem clear.
Ricky Whittle's abs, they should be in a museum. They're crazy.
The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still - it's not something that a museum would really embrace.
The 19th century became the age of the museum. Objects were scrambled for, specimens seized, and friezes and antiques grasped.