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What is a museum – and what goes in it?

What is a museum – and what goes in it?

As students and museum professionals, we are constantly revisiting the question of, “What is a museum?” We ask it of ourselves and of the visitors we serve – a quick search on Youtube, for example, yields such entertaining videos as What is a Museum? from 

Dispatches from the Atlantic: “Noon Year’s Eve”

Dispatches from the Atlantic: “Noon Year’s Eve”

by columnist Madeline Karp The stage was set. Workers stood at the ready with confetti cannons, the band members waited with baited breath to sound the first notes of Auld Lang Syne. Anxious in their cramped quarters, the crowd bounced on their toes, looking up,