Peter Zumthor Quotes

Te Papa Museum is brilliant.

A museum's meticulous presentation - exhaustive captions, hushed lighting, state-of-the-art armature - creates an institutional authority that is constructed to seem impregnable.

A great department store, easily reached, open at all hours, is more like a good museum of art than any of the museums we have yet established.

I'd love to open a private museum in Paris, London, or New York, but I don't have the money. If I were Bill Gates or Paul Allen, the first thing I would do is build a museum.

Visiting a museum is a matter of going from void to void.

My favorite museums are things like the Frick Museum in New York and the Huntington Hartford in Pasadena where it's someone's home that you walk through.

Museums are interesting. This place where we're almost buying admission to take a break from our lives.

I want the Dead Sea, like Masada, to be part of UNESCO's world heritage.

We learn a lot, and each museum ends up having its own distinctive character and personality.

A tourist will come drawn to its beautiful past but we need to put efforts for creating systems to make them stay here.

In a very basic way, a prominent landmark such as Mt. Holyoke tells you where you are. They let you know that you're not the first person in a place.

The church of St. Peter at Berlin, notwithstanding the total difference between them in the style of building, appears in some respects to have a great resemblance to St. Paul's in London.

The White House is the people's house. When you do historical restoration, that must be what it is.

The Great Hall at the Met is one of the great portals of the world... From there, you can walk in any direction to almost any culture.

The Pyrenees are no more.

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

Many of the museum directors who make an impact personally curate exhibitions.

If you see a wonderful archaic Greek marble object in a museum, it's not only that it's beautiful, but what comes to your mind is the fact that it's 2,600 or so years old, and it was done by a human being at that time who you have such a limited ability to grasp - and yet you have this enormous ability to grasp.

Saddam Hussein was fascinated by ancient Babylon and Assyria. He made money available to protect and develop the great archaeological sites. The great achievements of Mesopotamian civilisation were pressed into the service of the Ba'athist regime.

Playing in New York is special to me because you are surrounded by so many communities and a strong Latin community, including the Washington Heights neighborhood. I come to Washington Heights for real Dominican food that reminds me of my hometown, and it's a great place to visit.

Museums, I love museums.

I don't want to be cliched, but Buckingham Palace is beautiful, and the old red telephone booths are really interesting to me. I've always wanted to see those.

Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.

I find it a bit sad that there is no photo of me hanging on the walls in the Berlin Museum at Checkpoint Charlie.

In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.