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

Stephen Wright

We appreciate Bubba O'Keefe for allowing us to see the WROX museum.

Mark Auslander

Mr. Hochberg was receptive to the idea because he was the one who said he would put a museum of some description in the barn, but he would leave it the commission's decision what would be an appropriate use of the space.

Cheryl Cook

Nothing seems more like a whorehouse to me than a museum. In it you find the same equivocal aspect, the same frozen quality.

Michel Leiris

I like talking to people and I do a lot of work here. I put up a lot of the frames for the art and photos, and I like building things for the museum.

Stan Grimes

[It's an ambitious undertaking. Most of the artifacts come from outside the museum.] We're really lucky, ... We don't have a large collection. Most of what we use is loaned to us from members of the community.

Paul Russell

Poets now read all over the place, but at that time they didn't - if they were famous, they maybe read at the Museum of Modern Art.

Jonah Raskin

I think it belongs in a museum. It's something everyone should see. People see it as only one kind, but it is more than that.

Robert Stafford

One of the things we would like to have our money go for is a microphone system. The museum has no sound system. We have speakers every month, and very often, when the room is full, it's difficult to hear them.

Mimi Pearson

We named this museum The Museum of Bad Art .

Scott Wilson

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt

We are delighted that the museum is coming to the Empire State Building. This is the center of all the great cartoonists, and the museum belongs in New York City.

Peter Malkin

We want it to be a museum for faux.

Adrienne Van Dooren

To make the public aware of our museum and at the same time have a lot of fun with the music.

Jim Robinson

We will set up the museum on the second floor of the north-wing. It should be finished by February.

Ma Yongzhang

Said Kennedy, who will make education programs her focus on the board. ''I just fell in love with the museum.

Teresa Heinz Kerry

We all have been singing the blues. We have dedicated full time the last month to the museum and we all have other jobs.

Carolyn Smith

It's like a little criminal museum.

David Patterson

It's now or never for the IFC, ... The museum has until Friday to do what is right . . . We will not allow the American people to subsidize a museum that blames [America] for . . . 9/11.

Vito Fossella

We'll get exhibitions that will be the envy of the museum world.

Michael De Marsche

His mom invented whiteout. He's a millionaire. I thought having whiteout be the last thing in the museum was a good way to end the tour.

Bob Everhart

If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.

Sir Arthur Eddington

Selma, it is time for us now to put our civil war and civil rights history in the museum.

James Perkins

For all the guys who used to work here to see. Like a floating museum.

Paul Michaels

I've had to deal with cultural isolation. I can't just go to a museum or gallery opening.

Scott Bailey

It's no longer a museum piece. She's actually a living ship.

James Ellis

Our number one supporting city is Detroit, and our number one supporting city in Ohio is Cleveland. People come down here, and it's much more than a museum. It's an experience.

Julie Hardin

We became the best of friends. John and Vera helped me obtain a scholarship at the Powerhouse Museum where I did a marketing course.

Allen Collins

I thought that would be kind of a neat thing, to get involved with the museum. Since they do displays of living history, I got involved in that.

Russell Crawford

We'll probably get a non-traditional art museum audience, (people who are) a little more interested in pop culture and history. We'll probably get a wider family audience.

Mark Medeiros

We're reading some of the books about the Titanic. We're going to see the exhibit at the museum in a couple of weeks.

Ben Rivers

Every six to nine months, 99 percent of the space inside the museum changes. That's a big undertaking.

Paul Russell

Like some exhibit in a science museum, preserved the same forever?

Chyler Leigh

This is the first time that a major art museum has shown his work.

Harriet Warkel

The other people in the museum at the time were very respectful, ... No one approached them on their own.

Wendy Taylor

A friend told me that he saw one of our products displayed at a museum in the States. That's really encouraging.

Andrew Lee

It really adds another dimension to the museum by providing some life and perhaps drawing a different crowd.

Joseph Barnes

I would have liked to see her include more of the local artists in events. It would have helped us get recognized and would have helped attendance at the museum. To me, it just didn't seem that the museum ever reached out to us. I would like the new director to invite all the local artists (to the museum) and get their ideas or suggestions. At least consider us.

Bob Adams

On your typical day at the museum, parking really isn't an issue. It's when they have an event that the problems occur.

Bill Foster

He's really quite an incredible guy, ... He was very excited when he learned his painting would be in the (Princeton University Art Museum) gallery.

Sandra Miller

Families know that new elements are always on view at the museum. From monthly themes, to traveling exhibits, to live .performances.

Suzanne Leblanc

It would be disappointing to see the museum itself go. But we will always have that connection.

Mary Craven

Every part of the museum they go into, people will find something to hold their interest.

Alan Gross

I greatly look forward to leading the Getty Museum as it prepares to add the magnificently renovated Villa to its operations.

Michael Brand

This one-of-a-kind museum will help promote tourism in a beautiful, historic region of the country that has been struggling economically.

John Peterson

That's what it will take to move, but that's not even counting the estimated $500,000 it's going to cost to convert the station into a museum.

Debbie Pace

We've put in a lot of park lights all around our historical society museum and in the commercial area. There's also 110 hanging flower baskets we've put up.

Thomas Foster

We wanted a color that is very colorful in the desert. Overall, people are very positive about the museum.

Jim Ballinger

We've had students that have interned at the Field Museum and the Chicago Historical Society. They both tend to be very popular among our students.

Taylor Atkins

The Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum will never accept an artifact from any company whose business is promoting gambling.

Jeff Idelson

It's not a museum. It's not a place of artifacts; it's a place of ideas.

Jeanie Kahnke

It's got the context of a very good architect [Renzo Piano, who designed the expansion] and an excellent museum. You couldn't ask for more.

Claes Oldenburg

We're transforming our museum for 2007.

Debby Padgett

Some people think we're trying to create something that belongs in a museum. But we're trying to create something that speaks to them in a more direct way. The historically informed approach ... is important because it creates something moving and beautiful.

Michael Mccraw

Why are taxpayers in California and Texas and Massachusetts paying for a museum in Indianapolis?

David Boaz

That every institution, art museum and private collection has some of these missing works.

Ronald Lauder

Here, we have much more room to grow, and more fans can come to enjoy not only the main events but what the museum offers.

Larry Smith

Everybody else was about a house museum and backward-looking things. Phil was talking about Wright's ideas and moving forward.

Gerald Morosco

The museum existed in some incarnation or another for many years. It moved around as different things, but five years ago we were able to make it to a permanent location. This year we decided to celebrate and host an annual event.

Angela Lawson

It's important for this museum to have a good idea of the vision of others.

Lonnie Bunch

His coming was a godsend. We needed that personality to guide the museum through the early days. When he came on board, it was a foregone conclusion that it would be a success.

Brendan Callahan

He was our living history museum. He was quite a character, in every way.

David Burnette

Do you want your home to be a museum, or do you want to live in it? ... We're not trying to do a museum.

John Mcpherson

The museum was our drawing card, along with our small-town features, so we didn't need to do anything else to get him here.

Jennifer Jones

The Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum will never accept artifacts from any company known to be involved with gambling.

Jeff Idelson

The legacy of this place is heroism and goodness. That is what we celebrate through this museum.

Frank Keating

The museum has always been about the cutting edge and the contemporary, ... Some of the museum's first purchases were works from the Impressionists, who, at the time, were considered cutting-edge.

Jane Clarke

The Getty is a contemporary museum of ancient art, in some ways.

Michael Brand

The generous donation from Jerry Springer will help us create entertaining and educational exhibits and will help us build a truly world-class broadcast museum.

Bruce Dumont

We want to make some new clients in Arizona and let people know what we are up to in New York. A few of our clients have homes out there and we want to make contact with the museum curators in the area.

Jay Grimm

We want to make sure the World War II guys and the Korean (War) guys see that the museum is completed.

James Livingston

This is a collection that has been sought after by everyone in the museum world because it is so great, ... Finally, for reasons I wholeheartedly agree with, it came here.

Lawrence Small

It (Tropicana Field) could house the whole museum without a problem.

Dave Mccarthy

The slippers are a major attraction at our museum. It is our hope that the slippers can be recovered immediately.

John Kelsch

There's no other museum in the world like this - all the works being exhibited were donated as a tribute to Allende and his government. The place is a memorial.

Jose Balmes

The best thing is that the proceeds will go to the depot museum, ... I am very excited for both the book signing and the chocolate festival.

Jill Anderson

The foundation has determined we want to go in a different direction, and it's time for a change, ... We've decided to pursue a new direction for developing and sustaining the museum.

Bill Clayton

This gives the foundation direction, programming and a curator for this department, and makes the Denver Art Museum a major museum in the field of modern and contemporary art.

Lewis Sharp

Picasso: Masterworks From the Museum of Modern Art.

Omar Sharif

In a new museum we could plan how all of the areas function together.

Terry Mulkey

If we go in the direction I want to go, there's no way we can have (the museum) in the municipal court building.

Don Cohagan

I didn't see any museum guards.

Laura Collins

The museum has probably the finest collection of its kind in the country.

James Doran

We were especially gratified that he brought in [VCU art faculty members] to consult on what the museum needed in its expansion to make it more useful for educational purposes.

James Farmer

Why is that [museum], No. 1, part of a highway bill and, No. 2, why is it part of a federal highway bill?

David Boaz

The list was announced by the Ministry of Culture. Earlier this month, the display of our embroidery crafts at the National Museum of China in Beijing was so successful that thousands of visitors were amazed at the delicacy and elegance of the art form.

Liu Jianmin

A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

Abigail Van Buren

His home is more of a museum than the museum is. He accumulated and preserved a lot of items from the old days.

Tom Core

It was something which was really rediscovered because of two things. One was the interest in the Holocaust, which began in the late '70s; and the other was the museum exhibit, which was our opening exhibit.

Severin Hochberg

The caucus kind of adopted us in June by making a substantial financial donation to keep the museum open for the summer.

Carolyn Hughes

The moral issues get stronger or weaker depending on what the circumstances were when the museum got the painting.

Howard Friedman

People seem to love nudity, and I'm sure there's a lot of nudity to choose from in [the] museum.

Stacy King

The community will continue to be invited to participate in the planning and realization of this transformation of their community's art museum.

Phil Vollmer

It's marvelous and really a new museum. It's a wonderful frame for what we will do in Atlanta in the future.

Henri Loyrette

This is just going to be a wonderful facility. We are all very excited here at the museum. It's going to be bigger, better and more interactive.

Bill Mackay

Dennis had a special interest in history and especially the history of Racine County, so the museum, I think, was kind of a special interest to him.

Bill Adams

An art book is a museum without walls.

Andre Malraux

A museum more than just an institution that houses objects. We took a look at how the museum uses its collection for educational purposes.

Jan Smith

The two and a half month exhibition will enable Chinese audiences an opportunity to enjoy the collection of a world class museum without going abroad.

Guo Xiaoling

Kent and Vicki Logan have ensured a strong future for modern and contemporary art at the Denver Art Museum.

Lewis Sharp

In 2005 alone, more than 35,000 people from all over the world came to the MCC Museum at Lord's, where they could see the Ashes urn for themselves.

Adam Chadwick

The public needs to be aware of this problem so museum boards know what they think.

Malcolm Bell

Children and families will have the opportunity to leave their personal mark on the museum and truly make it their own place.

Jennifer Farrington

The thing that I've enjoyed the most about this position is being able to use the museum as a means of introducing lesser-known architects.

Terence Riley

The dovetailing of a new director and a new museum, it was the perfect time for someone to come in and build a truly new institution.

Mary Frank

I've been to about 50 robotic dinosaur exhibits around the country, but most of the time the dinosaurs are in a museum or mall. It's a completely different experience when they are outside.

Chris Delorey

It would be great to see that remain a music venue and some of that history and character be maintained so music lovers could always come there and it be somewhat of a museum for our history.

Wes Griffith

They'll set up a little museum in their classrooms.

Pam Hicks

There was this seashell museum - it had every kind of seashell you could imagine.

Katy Johnson

We were just doing an inventory of all the items in the museum. I'd seen this poster before, but really reading it in detail it's amazing what went on here back then.

Sharon Thompson

The 1930s was the first time the museum had a professional director and paid staff. They helped bring in some really big exhibitions.

Sara Arnold

My wife and I are members of the museum. There were kids from all over Indiana.

Michael Carter

We anticipate a synergy from the combined skills and experiences of these two individuals. Which one will be in charge of which museum area will be determined in part by their backgrounds and skills and seniority.

Rich Morrison

As with jazz, every performance is new and fresh. When it's in a museum setting, it automatically gives it a new context.

Curtis Carter

That would be interesting to me even if there wasn't a museum.

Peter Walker

The museum is probably so happy to have it over that they'll go along with it. But I think that's sad. For the future of this city it certainly doesn't set a high standard for arts. It's a make-do.

Jan Platt

When we were growing up in Philadelphia, she would drop us off at the Philadelphia Museum of Art on weekends, ... I was enamored of the armor collection of knights and weapons.

Oscar Goodman

We're just working with the museum element. Those are decisions that will be made by the city council in years to come.

Terry Mulkey

In 2005 more than 35,000 people from all over the world came to the MCC Museum at Lord's, where they could see the Ashes urn. This touring exhibition will enable many more Australian cricket lovers to see the urn and learn more about its long and fascinating history.

Adam Chadwick

It is rare today, except in very, very crowded periods, to have to wait more than 15 minutes to get into the museum, with [lines for] the coatroom included.

Didier Selles

You belong in a museum!

Vera Miles

Look into some things you wouldn't normally do, that are inside. That museum you've never gone into, the library, the bookstore, the coffee shop.

Heather Bryant

They will go to the museum. They were found here, and they will stay here.

Mel Tinker

Not having a spring exhibition (in 2005) was a big deal. I'm pleased we kept as much (of the numbers) as we did. What drives a museum is having new things. That's the single most important thing I've learned as director of a museum.

George Sparks

They did not ask us to close the museum or for an after-hours visit or any special treatment.

Wendy Taylor

It is invaluable. It was the focal point of our museum.

Mark Welch

This museum will be the vital center for all of SAM's activities for most of the year.

Mimi Gates

We are similar to a museum. My function is to present old masterpieces in modern frames.

Rudolf Bing

We don?t have a place as of yet, and we are looking at alternative sites. From our perspective, we will work with the museum as much as possible.

Roger W. Bourassa

The other people in the museum at the time were very respectful. No one approached them on their own.

Wendy Taylor

The first music show was held there at the museum. The crowds soon outgrew that room.

Rita Forrester

She's the only museum curator I know who can take a beer-can opener and a frying pan and make a marvelous exhibition out of it.

Thomas Sokolowski

At the rate we're going, we're out-pacing the Los Angeles County Art Museum in pre-sales.

Michael Mills

These little cars went like hell, ... About 35 to 50 miles an hour around a course at the art museum.

Frank Rizzo

When we checked her references, that museum lost its funding, her position lost its funding. I called her boss that had worked with her there and that was all verified.

Jim French

This museum represents my life, all our lives.

Murphy Wardman

If a museum buys illicit works and then asks us for loans for an exhibition, we will certainly say no.

Giuseppe Proietti

It's really moving to see this kind of support for the museum from the Oak Lawn community and the area.

Adam Woodworth

People wanted to see the inside of the museum. It was useful information.

Jeff Daly

I think it's very exciting. We're very proud of the museum, and very excited about having folks see it.

Pat Morris

It's a blatant political compromise. It's a sad day for arts in our town. I don't think the art museum belongs in a building that has been called a beer can from Day One. This is just mediocre.

Jan Platt

There is a definite distinction between membership with the club and membership with the museum, ... Membership with the club is $30 a year, $20 recurring, and $25 with the museum. It's possible to belong to either or both, and we'll have applications available at the museum.

James Jamison

[The Museum of the Rockies is doing a] spectacular job, ... This is a more open door to the Smithsonian.

Larry Small

Steward forever of the memorial and memorial museum.

Gretchen Dykstra

We continued to negotiate and let the museum know that when we give a gift, there is no attachment.

Louisa Smith

Believe me, Buddy Guy is not a museum piece. He is as viable as he ever was and he is still changing and growing and still evolving which is pretty amazing for a man of his experience.

Larry Groce

Mallards are museum pieces. There are planes in museums younger than these.

Mary Schiavo

We want to make the museum available to the broadest possible community. This would make it happen.

Bruce Pepich

The idea behind the museum was that this office is as old as the country, and the story of America is closely tied to invention. This office was founded on the idea that creativity and innovation should be encouraged, and you can actually see that here.

Richard Maulsby

We were supposed to go to the dinosaur museum in Hays but it snowed. I think we (adults) were more disappointed than the kids.

Janet Baker

This was seen as an opportunity to have a museum that is very much from the native perspective.

Thomas Sweeney

We are a real museum and we are going to do all the things that a real museum does. We are going to lend things, we are going to borrow things and we're going to send exhibitions on the road.

Dennis Barrie

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

Pablo Picasso

The museum was interested in me for a long time because I use Archie comics in my art.

Daniel O'connor

We want somebody who is experienced in national and international fundraising. We have to continue the growth of the museum or else it is going to dissolve, ... As we work to build a new funding base, having an executive director with a different background will help us to make that possible.

Bill Clayton

The museum would have one foot in the past and one foot in the present.

Gordon Huether

We'd like to stay located in that facility until the new museum is built.

Lucy Allen

People who see a drawing in the "New Yorker" will think automatically that it's funny because it is a cartoon. If they see it in a museum, they think it is artistic; and if they find it in a fortune cookie they think it is a prediction.

Saul Steinberg

We want people, when they think of the museum, that they think of it as a place to come for education, and 'entertainment,' so they can enjoy themselves here.

Regina Faden

It is not a substantial money-maker for the museum.

Lisa Baker

Museum in heaven.

David Seamands

The city is selling some of our property with the requirement that that money go to directly support the museum.

Jerry Roberts

Eight members of our coalition are encouraging their members to contact their congressperson to express their desire to have such a museum located on the Mall.

Susan Jollie

Los Angeles is a great city. It's home to more creative people than anywhere in the world. It's the future. I think the museum is a sleeping giant.

Michael Govan

There's usually some kind of theater event or museum event. There's a big social and entertainment component.

Claudia Stewart

We have spent a long time gathering these wonderful items. If the museum closes, all of them will be scattered, and who knows what will happen to them? We can't close. We can't let it happen.

Murphy Wardman

As a kid on Saturday night, the streets were full. Now the only business we get is from the (Museum of the Middle Appalachians).

Carolyn Thomas

Everyone in the museum was shocked and disturbed by this.

Leigh Goodwyn

It is a remarkable collection for a college museum.

Susan Kuretsky

I don't know how to even articulate the kind of energy this museum is attracting.

Danialle Karmanos

There's a statue of Jimmy Stewart in the Hollywood Wax Museum, and the statue talks better than he does.

Dean Martin

The museum is great. I can't believe Joe took this on. It is the perfect complement to the flagship Country Music Hall of Fame and the pending Gospel Music Hall of Fame.

Butch Spyridon

A museum show is the acid test for photojournalism.

Richard Lacayo

I have never done Chicago in such a blitz in my whole life, ... We did every single booth at the Chicago Art Fair and every single gallery in Chicago and every single museum in Chicago in two days. I could never do that by myself. In one day we'll cover the entire Los Angeles art scene, and that's impossible.

Betty Moody

In some ways, this museum in Washington gets to do something very important, ... It can be a lens to help us all better understand what it means to be an American--to use African-American culture as that lens to understand the history of this country as well.

Lonnie Bunch

A Night at the Museum.

Stephen Sommers

Even before the museum opened in 1929, Henry Ford was acquiring artifacts.

Christian W. Overland

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao looks like a great adventure.

Eduardo Chillida

I think a museum could act as sort of a keystone, almost a landmark for this downtown area.

Terry Mulkey

If you work at a museum or a park or home school your children, you can use the program.

Eileen Tramontana

That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.

Edmond And Jules De Goncourt

The fund-raising environment is consistently more competitive. The situation of any new museum today is a challenge, regardless of what kind of museum it is.

Ed Able

We were inadvertently sending a message to the public that they were not welcome. We do want everyone in the museum and we want to create a comfortable place.

Ed Able

Ironically, this clock seems to receive more attention than any exhibition inside our museum. We receive letters or phone calls every month complaining about the punctuality of the clock.

Zhang Qing