The Porta Coeli, sitting at the end of a long plaza as if on a heavenly throne, has been a museum of religious objects since the mid-1970's.
Adam Mars-Jones's new book, which arrives less than a year after his novel Cedilla, is an attempt to save postwar Japanese cinema from its reputation as a museum of mystical objects, a body of work so "hushed, serene and inexplicit" that the only sensible, even possible, response is to keep your mouth shut and bow.
In 2007, he oversaw the opening of the Wellcome Collection, a museum of medical artwork and objects, which hosts regular free exhibitions.
The trust announced that it would turn the Malibu villa into a museum of antiquities, filling it with objects that were created in the period that the building — a replica of the Villa dei Papiri, in Herculaneum — was intended to evoke.
Word And Object (1960) attacked prevailing philosophical theories which see meanings as objects in a museum of ideas, with verbal expressions as their arbitrary, interchangeable labels.
Hall's pavilion is a condensed museum of wondrous objects – warrior masks knitted out of military fatigues; precious weaver-bird nests created out of shredded banknotes; strange new fish fashioned out of the unscrolled lids of sardine cans.
What did was the near-universal rejection by Western museums of objects recovered from underground in violation of national laws, unless they can be proved to have reached the Western market before 1970.
"Hopefully inspired by our project, they'll respond to the question, 'If you started a museum, which of our objects would take pride of place?" Our first #MuseumInstaSwap from @hornimanmuseumgardens is their fab totem pole.
"I love the idea that you could make a museum out of found objects," Jade French, 22, said.
