Museum Studies Quotes

For a while I thought I would work in museums, so my first job after college was an internship at the 9/11 Museum. I quickly found out that I did not want to do that. So I signed up for culinary school, and directly following culinary school, I went to graduate school at McGill.

Also, while I was at Yale, I had a job teaching kids at the museum.

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

I think about that all of the time and I have this fantasy that I am going to work at a museum someday! I would love to do something like that!

My education in the arts began at the Cleveland Museum of Art. As a Cleveland child, I visited the museum's halls and corridors, gallery spaces and shows, over and over. For me, the Cleveland Museum was a school of my very own - the place where my eyes opened, my tastes developed, my ideas about beauty and creativity grew.

I spend all day in museums. I even eat my lunch in the museum, and I take a nap for one hour there.

It's quite an obscure notion for a kid, no? To want to be a curator. But even then, I knew that I would do this.

I was at the Smithsonian for twenty years, and I'm still at the Smithsonian as a curator emeritus, and I still plan to figure out what that means for me at this point in my life.

I would probably have been very content as a scholar to have carried on organising exhibitions and writing books and teaching.