You are viewing a single comment's thread from:
RE: Reflections on a (Flawed) Vision for a History Center in Philadelphia
Notable, I think, that Goode didn't include "entertainment" in his definition of the "new museum." I think that one of the biggest flaws in the History Center idea is the reliance on convenience and fun as essential to their value proposition. Museums should be meaningful and moving but not necessarily always comfortable. Right?
Good eye! You know as well as I do the early struggle between the P.T. Barnum model and the "learned societies." I've got another quotation for you from the very first director of the Met, Luigi Palma di Cesnola in 1887:
