Exhibits Quotes

“To visit a museum is fine,
to be a museum piece is terrible!

- Gioconda and Si-Ya-U”
― Nâzım Hikmet, Poems of Nazım Hikmet

“Museums, whatever their content, are logical design arenas. Their renewed vitality reflects a spreading curatorial perception that a museum is a designed situation more than it is a warehouse open to the public. This in turn has made it possible for a great many people, including children, to perceive museum-going as something to do, rather than something that is done to you.”
― Ralph Caplan, By Design: Why There Are No Locks on the Bathroom Doors in the Hotel Louis XIV and Other Object Lessons

“Don’t think about whether the artwork or exhibit appeals … think about the emotion it stirs within you.”
― Lisa Medved, The Engraver's Secret