........................................................................................ - a weBlog by Snowy and me.
Friday 17 June 2011
Museums
are white walled chapels of rest
for objects with no use left in them. They are visited most by people with no sense of grief, at the lives presented as gone in the exhibits that are present, and a numbed sense of curiosity.
Well, experience. I went round The Ulster Museum in Belfast after it's last refurbishment, in 2009 or so, and the exhibits were smaller, farther apart, and more boxed in than before, and every surface that could be painted was painted with white silk emulsion. It is a large building. I left wondering how many thousands of gallons of paint they used to cover the walls.... and thinking nothing else.
Hmm nice!
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Well, experience. I went round The Ulster Museum in Belfast after it's last refurbishment, in 2009 or so, and the exhibits were smaller, farther apart, and more boxed in than before, and every surface that could be painted was painted with white silk emulsion. It is a large building. I left wondering how many thousands of gallons of paint they used to cover the walls.... and thinking nothing else.
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