The Curator’s Egg

…and in a sense tragic, but this guy is (or is that was) surely a candidate for a Darwin Award?

Right back at the beginning of this blog I wrote about the experience which more than any other led me to working in museums. Now while that fixed in my head the value, the importance, of objects as the physical link to our past, it must be admitted that very few museums will provide that [...]

How often have you heard or read something like this:
“The proof is in the pudding.”
Well, no, it isn’t actually. The proof of the pudding is in the eating, dammit.
And don’t get me started on ‘enormity’. Too late. It is not, as so many seem to think a synonym for mere bigness. On the other hand [...]