October 2011
2 posts
“How many things,
Files, doorsills, atlases, wineglasses, nails,
Serve us like...”
– Jorge Luis Borges from ‘Things’, In Praise of Darkness 1969
Thinking about things
Thinking about museums is always thinking about things – objects – and how they behave in the world, the memories and stories that are embedded in them and how they will bear witness in the future.
On the Shore has been a record of random thoughts and ideas as I tackled my first year as director of the National Museum. The blog will now be archived and I am closing with a quote from the...