Traditional, adj. A kind of activity which must have been done forever because our grandparents did it.
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Traditional, adj. A kind of activity which must have been done forever because our grandparents did it.
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Committee, n. A group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Original quote attributed to Fred Allen
See also Board of Trustees
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Genealogy, n. A partial list of your ancestors’ sexual partners.
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Exciting, adj. A self-inflicted description used often, if not accurately, by museums to describe their programs.
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Patina, n. The first (and often last) feature an antiques collector learns to identify. Knowledge of patinas allows the collector to assess the age, authenticity, or restoration history of any piece and relieves him or her of the burden of having to know anything else.
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Attendance, n. The published sum of all museum visitors for a given event or time period. This number has no relation to reality.
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Popular Culture, n. Of little or no interest to historians until such time as it has fallen out of fashion, after which they build their careers on it.
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Warp Speed, n. Before 1966, how quickly one could prepare a loom.
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Stakeholder, n. A single-issue voter who contributes his or her agenda, but not money, to a museum project.
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