Para servir de inspiração

“There is no right or wrong way to visit a museum. The most important rule you should keep in mind as you go through the front door is to follow your own instincts. Be prepared to find what excites you, to enjoy what delights your heart and mind, perhaps to have esthetic experiences you will never forget. You have a feast in store for you and you should make the most of it. Stay as long or as short a time as you will, but do your best at all times to let the work of art speak directly to you with a minimum of interference or distraction.” (David Finn, How to visit a Museum, New York, Abrams, 1985)

... e a fotografia, de uma exposição no MoMA em 1939, retirada de: STANISZEWSKI, Mary Anne, The Power of Display, A History of Exhibition Installations at the Museum of Modern Art, The Mit Press, Cambridge, Mass.; London, England, 1998

O princípio

"Ten women and eight men, all of whom were acquaintances or friends of at least one of the authors, who were known to visit museums regularly, and who were known to naturally do some level of writing were approached and asked to participate. The approach was quite simple usually an email or telephone call explaining the overall MLC mission and the role of the diary study. (...) Each participant was then asked to write a personal description; to agree to visit five museums in the subsequent four to six months; and to write up a diary account of each visit. Any museum was acceptable and any spacing of the visits was acceptable. (...) Finally, some purposes were what we call ‘challenging’ in the sense that the diarist was pressing herself to be expansive; the diarist seemed to sense that there was more to learn in a general way about her immediate environment." http://www.museumlearning.org/mlc-04.pdf

Imagem: Thomas Struth,“Alte Pinakothek, Self-Portrait. Munich”, 2000