On Wed, 20 Oct 2010, Rod Smallwood wrote:
From my perspective museums are icebergs. Most of what
they have can't be
seen. Their idea is to put items into storage in whatever condition they
arrived in and do nothing unless the item can form part of a display.
That's surely true. If one gives us ten ar of display space, we could
easily fill that with items beneath the top of the iceberg.
Christian