Museums are places where time is transformed into space.
A museum is a living organism; to be effective it must keep growing, changing, evolving in outlook and presentation.
Museums are like the quiet car of a train. People can go there to think and experience art at their own pace.
Museums are, above all, places of inspiration.
A museum is a spiritual place. People lower their voices when they get close to art.
A museum is a house for the muses.

Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in it.
Museums are among the last refuges of the tactile, real, and personal.

The museum is a refuge for art, just as a library is a refuge for thought.
The museum is a place for the sanctity of human experience, a place of the heart, a place for treasured memories.
Museums are living institutions: they are constantly evolving, adapting to the needs and interests of their audiences.
Museums are custodians of epiphanies, and these epiphanies enter the central core of awareness via the senses.
A museum should not just be a place for fancy paintings but should be a place where we can communicate our lives through our everyday objects.

A museum is a place where one should lose one's head.