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Real museums are places where Time is transformed into Space.

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Orhan PamukThe Museum of Innocence

Are you all right, Sir?" asked Hezekiah."Just fighting over old battles in my mind," said John. "It'...

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It's a lovely experience walking around a museum by yourself.

He had been haunted his whole life by a mildcase of claustrophobia—the vestige of a childhood incide...

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What are the dead, anyway, but waves and energy? Light shining from a dead star?That, by the way, is...

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Now you are walking in Paris all alone in the crowdAs herds of bellowing buses drive byLove's anguis...

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In another place was a vast array of idols—Polynesian, Mexican, Grecian, Phoenician, every country o...

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How does one measure the success of a museum?

I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.

If you go to the Air and Space Museum in Washington, you can see the burn patterns on Friendship 7.

...That's why we have the Museum, Matty, to remind us of how we came, and why: to start fresh, and b...

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