Kimora Lee Simmons

Even if you can't afford to travel the world, you can take your children to the museum, zoo or local park. And don't be afraid to take them to grown-up spots. Eating out in a restaurant teaches children how to be quiet and polite and gives them the pleasure of knowing you trust them to behave.

American Businesswoman

Nicholas D'Agosto

I like going to museums and stuff, but I also like going out and doing lots of physical activity like camping and hiking. I like doing stuff that I've never done before. Curiosity is a big thing. Usually it means that people are intelligent and that they want to learn stuff about the world.

American Actor

Kehinde Wiley

If you look at the paintings that I love in art history, these are the paintings where great, powerful men are being celebrated on the big walls of museums throughout the world. What feels really strange is not to be able to see a reflection of myself in that world.

American Artist

Jerry Saltz

Of course art world ethics are important. But museums are no purer than any other institution or business. Academics aren't necessarily more high-minded than gallerists.

American Critic

Gerhard Richter

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.

German Artist

Jill Scott

When I was growing up, my mother would take me to plays and museums, and we'd talk about life. Those times helped shape who I became.

American Musician

Sean Doolittle

If you're gonna do museums, some of the best in the world are in D.C.

American Athlete

Jane Byrne

Our universities and museums are respected around the country.

American Politician

Josh Gates

Egypt really is one of the worlds greatest open-air museums.

Jean Nouvel

Art should be created for life, not for the museum.

French Architect

Museums vary by focus; some feature art, others history or science. Each offers different learning experiences.

Types of Museums

Museums often reflect cultural heritage and can be symbols of national pride or memory.

Cultural Significance

Beyond displays, museums provide educational programs, tours, and interactive exhibits for all ages.

Educational Spaces

 the video games for a really long time, and that's what museums do. They also preserve artifacts for posterity. In absence of the code, because, you know, video game companies are not very forthcoming in some cases, in absence of that, we acquire the relationship with the company. We're going to stay with them forever. They're not going to get rid of us.

Paola Antonelli: Why I...

 We also have a classroom hives project, where -- this is a nonprofit venture -- we're spreading the word around the world for how honeybee hives can be taken into the classroom or into the museum setting, behind glass, and used as an educational tool. This hive that you see here has been

Noah Wilson-Rich: Every...

 mission to find this frog took five years to find the first one and and it was incredible you know that was my frog that was one that one really wanted to work with I got special permission to collect them brought them back to the museum they bred them for the first time in the world

He Spent His Career...

 a missed it in the fashion industry because while at boss tyrunt a commercial business I also embody the art world make films installations and I show them in galleries and museums interestingly this condition has given me the freedom to be an immigrant within various disciplines

My life as an outsider PIPE...

 As you can see, we have a lion here and a gladiator, and, well, the janitor ought to be in this wing clearly. Moving on, hurry along. The next step in the evolution of museums occurred in the Renaissance, when the study of the natural world was once again encouraged

Why do we have museums?...

 Historically speaking, the public appreciation of visual art in terms other than traditional, religious or social function is a relatively new concept. Today, we fetishize the fetish, so to speak. We go to museums to see art from the ages,

A brief history of...

 and the deepest shipwrecks. The ocean is like a huge underwater museum that constantly adds to our knowledge about humanity. With only a fraction of it explored, discoveries are sure to continue long into the future.

How much of human...

 When you think of natural history museums, you probably picture exhibits filled with ancient lifeless things, like dinosaurs meteroites,

The hidden worlds within...

 it was almost as if a museum specimen had been carefully laid out on the sea floor

The Blue Planet...

 Nadia's help the museum agreed to let me inspect the seized antiquities