Why Some People Hate Museums
James Durston is in a pissy mood about the temples to culture: ‘Graveyards for stuff. Tombs for inanimate things. Their cavernous rooms and deep corridors reverberate with the soft, dead sounds of tourists shuffling and employees yawning. They’re like libraries, without the party atmosphere. Occasionally a shrill voice bounces down from a distant hallway: “No photos!” and I swivel to see something, anything, that might be interesting. But it’s not.’
