The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye.
Any period is fascinating: the more ancient, the better.
My husband John's and my breaks are often very culture heavy. He cannot pass a museum without venturing inside, so we tend to see a lot of architecture and so-called places of interest.
Every museum is full of nice things. That's the opposite of before. It was important things or serious things. Now we have interesting things.
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.
The habit of collecting, of attachment to things, is an essential human trait. But Western civilization put collecting on a pedestal by inventing museums. Museums are about representing power. It could be the king's power or, later, people's power.
I was about 40 when I got a glimmer of the wonders archaeology can offer, and I want kids to be able to have that for their whole lives, not just in middle-age.
I'm in a museum. I'm a relic.
If you really want to be a good archaeologist, you have to understand ancient DNA; you have to understand chemical analysis to figure out the composition of ancient pots. You have to be able to study human remains. You need to be able to do computer processing and, in some cases, computer programming.
Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
Museums, I love museums.
Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.
I was always a history buff.
I'm not an historian but I can get interested - obsessively interested - with any aspect of the past, whether it's palaeontology or archaeology or the very recent past.
My films have a lot of historical context; I'm a huge fan of ruins. You see a lot of ruin work in my movies, I like ruins.
Archaeology can be overlooked as a discipline, I think, but it's incredibly important to have this other way of approaching the past - not just through historical documents, but through actual physical remains - objects, buildings and the layout of our towns.
Stories are artifacts, not really made things which we create and can take credit for, but pre-existing objects which we dig up.
Again, like I said, my life has been about being fascinated by objects and the stories that they tell, and also making them for myself, obtaining them, appreciating them and diving into them.
The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.
I do love history. I loved learning about wars and things in school.
Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
When I'm on the road, museums end up being a place I go to in different cities that is always interesting. Museums and independent record stores.
There are two types of collector, I think. There are those who are quite academic, and get into the archaeology of finding the earliest example of a particular idea. Then there are those interested in what's new.
The 19th century became the age of the museum. Objects were scrambled for, specimens seized, and friezes and antiques grasped.
My dream was always to be in museums. It's a big and important milestone and a fulfillment of one of my primary ambitions.
