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I love museums. Dusty old smelly moldy stuff sitting in back closets or shiny and polished, arranged in clever displays. Earth is where I keep my stuff, so it's really quite remarkable to see how many others have kept stuff here, too.

So I have a bit of a museum survey:

∙ Do you (voluntarily) visit museums? If so, which has been your favourite?

∙ What section or type of stuff do you look for in a museum? What most catches your eye? What most inspires your imagination?

∙ Have you ever made any truely interesting discoveries at the museum?

∙ Why do people hate museums (entirely speculative answer called for)?

Do you (voluntarily) visit museums?

- Yes

If so, which has been your favourite?

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

∙ What section or type of stuff do you look for in a museum?
- the quiet spaces where you can just sit

What most catches your eye?
- side rooms
What most inspires your imagination?
- benches

∙ Have you ever made any truely interesting discoveries at the museum?
yes. sitting with my wife in one of the plant-filled side rooms of the Gallery

∙ Why do people hate museums (entirely speculative answer called for)?
because there's usually no place to be romantic

I enjoy visiting museums, but haven't done so in some time. The last one I visited was the Philly art museum. I once tripped in the NJ state museum. It made looking at the paintings much more interesting.

∙ Do you (voluntarily) visit museums? If so, which has been your favourite?

Yeah, haven't gone to one in a while though... but I don't really like Art museums. Like historical ones and such I love though.

∙ What section or type of stuff do you look for in a museum? What most catches your eye? What most inspires your imagination?

Stuff of historical significance (or really beautiful)

∙ Have you ever made any truely interesting discoveries at the museum?

Nope

∙ Why do people hate museums (entirely speculative answer called for)?

I've never met someone who does.

Nope no museums for me :)

the field museum in chicago

i love the jade and the hall of jewels


people hate museums because they arent used well by the teachers who take them to museums.

Once every two years or so is enough for me. Too many damn tourists.

∙ Do you (voluntarily) visit museums? If so, which has been your favourite?


yes, National Art Gallery, Ottawa Ontario, Canada


∙ What section or type of stuff do you look for in a museum? What most catches your eye? What most inspires your imagination?


Honestly, natural history museums really get my imagination going. Adaptation gets me off lol


∙ Have you ever made any truely interesting discoveries at the museum?


no


∙ Why do people hate museums (entirely speculative answer called for)?

intellectual pursuits are seen as bourgoise and unproductive to society.

I love museums. Dusty old smelly moldy stuff sitting in back closets or shiny and polished, arranged in clever displays. Earth is where I keep my stuff, so it's really quite remarkable to see how many others have kept stuff here, too.

So I have a bit of a museum survey:

∙ Do you (voluntarily) visit museums? If so, which has been your favourite?

Nope

∙ Why do people hate museums (entirely speculative answer called for)?

Because it's boring to walk around looking at a bunch of old stuff.

Voluntarily visit museums
-Yes
Favorite Museum
-Smithsonian American History Museum, although I loved the Dresden Art -Museum in Germany...
Favorite section of a mus.
-American History, pertaining to politics and war
Unique museum discoveries
-loads actually
Why do people hate museums
-they can be more easily entertained by the television or the computer

The best single experience I've ever had in a museum was sitting in a room with about 5 Rembrandts in it...I was kind of amazed.

That is too many questions! But the Philadelphia art museum rocks. They have a whole wing devoted entirely to weapontry, maces, battle axes, morning stars etc. Most art museums are just filled with pretentious snobs though. I do love a good natural history museum though, lots of stuffed endanged animals, ussually moldy and with hair and body parts falling of, collected by crazy billionaires on Safaris a centruy ago.

Voluntarily visit museums
-Yes
Favorite Museum
-Smithsonian American History Museum, although I loved the Dresden Art -Museum in Germany...
Favorite section of a mus.
-American History, pertaining to politics and war
Unique museum discoveries
-loads actually
Why do people hate museums
-they can be more easily entertained by the television or the computer

The best single experience I've ever had in a museum was sitting in a room with about 5 Rembrandts in it...I was kind of amazed.

I think Andaluciae hits it right on the head, there.

Too many people today are uninterested in physical history, or immersion in culture, because they lack an attention span - and can get all the 'spiritual fulfillment' they need from Dallas re-runs.

I think Andaluciae hits it right on the ehad, there.

Too many people today are uninterested in physical history, or immersion in culture, because they lack an attention span - and can get all the 'spiritual fulfillment' they need from Dallas re-runs.
I get mine from walker Texas ranger (hell maybe I will even call it a ‘documentary’)

I get mine from walker Texas ranger (hell maybe I will even call it a ‘documentary’)

Buffy all the way....

∙ Do you (voluntarily) visit museums? If so, which has been your favourite?
My favourite museum so far was in a tiny little building on the island of Delos in Greece. The whole island is actually a museum of ruins, but this building was set aside to display some of the works, among them a statue of Apollo. I have never seen a more perfect set of buttocks in my life. Quite impressive.

∙ What section or type of stuff do you look for in a museum? What most catches your eye? What most inspires your imagination?
Shiny! Well, actually, I am attracted by costumery, tapestries and old furniture, that sort of stuff. Palaeontology is what catches my imagination, though; old bones.

∙ Have you ever made any truely interesting discoveries at the museum?
I have (but you probably guessed that). It wasn't actually in the museum, though. I was making my way from the Provincial Museum in Edmonton, Alberta, going around the west side of the grounds to the bus stop, and I chanced upon the most amazing relief carved onto the side of the building. It depicted mankind at various stages of technological development: a man operating a hand plough, one holding a test tube, another looking at the stars through a navigator's device, that sort of thing (my memory is punctuated after so many years). There were four of the figures, and in the middle of them, easily twice as large as the other figures, was a beautiful woman holding in her arms a sheath of wheat. It was quite stirring, a bit self-affirming, and totally surprising to find such a goddess-type image in the most unlikely of places... my home.

∙ Why do people hate museums (entirely speculative answer called for)?
Perhaps they really do like them and are in denial? ;)

∙ Do you (voluntarily) visit museums? If so, which has been your favourite?


Yes, my favorite was Morrill Hall (the University of Nebraska State Museum).

∙ What section or type of stuff do you look for in a museum? What most catches your eye? What most inspires your imagination?

I personally like museums that show a lot about prehistoric times.

∙ Have you ever made any truely interesting discoveries at the museum?

Yes, a lot, I won't even begin to say what all of them are.

∙ Why do people hate museums (entirely speculative answer called for)?

I think in a lot of cases they don't like any kind of educational fun. They have to be at an amusement park to be truely entertained.

∙ Do you (voluntarily) visit museums? If so, which has been your favourite?

Yes. My favourite is a little museum in a castle on top of a hill in the South of France. It's ground floor is dedicated to the history of olive oil, and it's first floor is a museum of modern art. Plus it's got a massive olive tree growing up through the middle of the bulding.

∙ What section or type of stuff do you look for in a museum? What most catches your eye? What most inspires your imagination?

I like the local history stuff best. It's more personal. Or high tech sciencey type stuff.

∙ Have you ever made any truely interesting discoveries at the museum?

Lots. Too many to mention.

∙ Why do people hate museums (entirely speculative answer called for)?

Meh ... they're pretty popular still. Probably a tad stale and passive for a lot of folks.

Incidentally, I have a friend who builds fake museums and then stages them in real museums, zoos, botanical gardens &c. Splendid stuff.

I love museums. Dusty old smelly moldy stuff sitting in back closets or shiny and polished, arranged in clever displays. Earth is where I keep my stuff, so it's really quite remarkable to see how many others have kept stuff here, too.

So I have a bit of a museum survey:

∙ Do you (voluntarily) visit museums? If so, which has been your favourite?

∙ What section or type of stuff do you look for in a museum? What most catches your eye? What most inspires your imagination?

∙ Have you ever made any truely interesting discoveries at the museum?

∙ Why do people hate museums (entirely speculative answer called for)?

1) every chance I get.
The Louvre

I love antiquities and art, of all sorts really.

Everything at many museums is terribly interesting.

Americans hate museums because americans gravitate towards low-quality things and are on the whole mediocre and bitter.