Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks.

quote by Roger Caras
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Visiting a museum is a matter of going from void to void.

quote by Robert Smithson
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Long live my PC

Long live my PC
May it live in museum
It's a friend indeed

poem by Asif Andalib
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visiting Hiroshima

1>Peace Memorial Museum.

two buildings
the museum surveys the history of Hiroshima
and the advent of the nuclear bomb.
main focus August 6; the dropping of the bomb
and its outcome in human suffering

personally it upset me

2.Cenotaph for the A-Bomb Victims

Between the Museum
and the A-Bomb Dome
an arched tomb
for those who died
because
initial blast
and then

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poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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Sibu town maternity museum
everybody born on
the same beds

haiku by John Tiong Chunghoo
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0408 The Phoenix Museum

A sightseeing phoenix a sign espied:
'This way to the Phoenix Museum';
A little homesick, went inside;
Looked for friends; but couldn't see 'em.

In hindsight, the title's
Just a little rash;
The Phoenix Museum
Is now a pile of ash...

poem by Michael Shepherd
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A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

quote by Abigail Van Buren
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St. Sebastian

Slender arrows,
pierce me through.

I wanted to forgive,
but too quickly
they flew.

My mind fades.
I rise to you.

**

ref: St. Sebastian, Andrea Mantegna 1456-59, Kunsthistorisches Museum
(viewed at the De Young Museum, San Francisco)

poem by Steven Federle
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Museum Of Idiots

They built this whole neighborhood out of wood, out of wood.
I guess I'll still be around when they burn, burn it down.
I will be standing around when they burn it down.
Here in the Museum of Idiots.
Honey, I'm there when you need me, please believe me, please believe me.
I'll still be right where you left me, if you manage to forget me.
Where we met is where you may forget.
Here in the Museum of Idiots.
If you and I had any brains, we wouldn't be in this place.
Chop me up into pieces if it pleases, if it pleases.
And when the chopping is through, every piece will say, "I love you."
Every piece of me will say "I love you."
Here in the Museum of Idiots.
Every piece of me will say "I love you, you you"
Here in the Museum of Idiots.

song performed by They Might Be Giants
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Shouldn't a great museum foster serious seeing before all else?

quote by Mark Stevens
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The number of great museums and nonprofits versus the number of corporate headquarters is incredibly out of whack.

quote by Richard Stengel
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Some politicians become authentic maybe only at the Wax Museum !

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The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.

quote by Robert Smithson
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If people don't like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum.

quote by Mikhail Gorbachev
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Also, while I was at Yale, I had a job teaching kids at the museum.

quote by Robert T. Bakker
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Curator

My life’s a museum of memories buried
in a mausoleum to matrimony kept
scrupulously clean – there is no distinction
between exhibits and things living

I am Curator as well as main exhibit in the
open-all-hours public gallery that nobody
views though entrance is freely exchanged
for tea and sympathy

I expect it stay this way until ‘The Company’
gets made an offer it can’t refuse whereon
I will merge with the grateful trees afforesting –
acknowledging arboreal dreams
© 9 October 2009, I. D. Carswell

poem by Ivan Donn Carswell
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These are the people who are going to see the pictures in my museum.

quote by Norton Simon
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Taiwan Contemporary Arts Museum
we, the daily art
for the attendants

senryu by John Tiong Chunghoo
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Since then I have held many jobs at museums in Colorado and Wyoming. I have also taught summer courses at the University of Colorado.

quote by Robert T. Bakker
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When I was growing up, my mother would take me to plays and museums, and we'd talk about life. Those times helped shape who I became.

quote by Jill Scott
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