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I’m an old-fashioned cove at heart and generally believe that things were much better in the past. My taste in museums is no exception. To me, a museum should be an Aladd-in’s cave of wonder and discovery – exotic specimens staring out from behind glass, queer objects of obscure purpose on display for their own intrinsic interest. The setting is as important as the collection it contains. A museum doesn’t feel like a museum unless it’s old.
There’s been a disheartening trend in modern museums for a clinical whiteness more familiar in hospitals. Stuffed animals and historic esoterica give way to interactive computer displays and Disneyesque animatronics.