This week I want to share a lot of books, content and visuals about museums and art. Of course, this is not only because it is museum week. It is because we have the opportunity to see ancient cities, exhibitions, mythological heroes, statues and countless works of art. Thanks to museums. What a great chance!

How can such special places and works that reveal the past to us be ignored?
Author and archaeologist Müge Soysal says that there is a prejudiced perception that museums are "institutions of dead artifacts." And she defines museums as the most special and only place where human artifacts that have completed their lives can be included in the present day. I don't know if you agree with me? But the crowds filling the museum corridors agree with Soysal.

Doesn't every museum visit give us a story? And countless memories that are etched in our children's minds. Then the real question becomes, will they remember all of this? Maybe some of it, or very little of it. That's not the point, actually, but remembering.

John Berger says, “The past never sits there waiting to be rediscovered, to be recognized as it is.” Discovery, maybe. Museums bring us together with the past. I think we agree on this point. There it is, a museum. It is there. The past, that is. And we pull things out with our children.
New stories. Comments.
What a good thing we are doing.

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