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Article: Editorial.(historic development of and social views toward museums)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
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- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- October 1, 2001
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A "Museum" in the American sense of the word means a place of amusement, wherein there shall be a theatre, some wax figures, a giant and a dwarf or two, a jumble of pictures, and a few live snakes. In order that there may be some excuse for the use of the word, there is in most instances a collection of stuffed birds, a few preserved animals, and a stock of oddly assorted and very dubitable curiosities; but the mainstay of the "Museum" is the "live art," that is, the theatrical performance, the precocious manikins, or the intellectual dogs and monkeys.
Edward P. Hingston, The Genial Showman.
Being Reminiscences of the Life of Artemus Ward, 1870
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