Museum Quotes

[It's an ambitious undertaking. Most of the artifacts come from outside the museum.] We're really lucky... We don't have a large collection. Most of what we use is loaned to us from members of the community. - Paul Russell

[Horror Week is an excuse for family fun, but it also serves several serious purposes.] Part of the idea with this entire event is to bring people who typically are not museum visitors... You know, we get our share of 26,000 to 30,000 fourth-graders a year, and other visitors, but there are a lot of people who just don't come to museums. - Richard Bates

[CHEBOYGAN - Sharon Thompson says it had nothing to do with the past Labor Day weekend, really, the fact that she came across the nostalgic poster advertising Cheboygan's 1907 Labor Day festivities.] We were just doing an inventory of all the items in the museum... I'd seen this poster before, but really reading it in detail it's amazing what went on here back then. - Sharon Thompson

[But that's not how things are done in Chico. An organization made up mainly of volunteers puts on two or three exhibits a year at Chico Museum.] There have been more than 90 exhibits since we opened in 1986... In all that time, we've had only one or two paid staff members. - Paul Russell

[At a screening on Monday evening at the Museum of Television and Radio, Professor Sachs said of the coming United Nations meeting,] Maybe what we've got to do is lead by action, and the government will follow along. ... Europe has stepped up, but America should take the lead, or at least more of a lead. - Angelina Jolie

(The library) is open that day, so there will be people coming in and out to check out books. We will have the car and motorcycle show outside, the museum, the gift shop and the cafe running. It's going to be an interesting day, with a lot going on. - Cathy Dame

(Displaying) this collection changed the shape and destiny of this museum. When it hits the national wire and people see what is happening in Winona, they will be taken with it. - Don Shelby