An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House & Garden. provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia for a past that none of its audience has had.

Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum.

I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.

Museums are the cemeteries of the arts

I'd say we have the biggest fossil collection out of our peers nationally - which are museums less than 25 years old. But it's not so much the quantity as the quality of our fossils. They're scientifically important and fascinating to look at.

The establishment includes the museums, which were seen as dinosaurs at the center of the big battle of the 20th century: art as a social tool versus art as a luxury good.