Famous quotes containing the words museums and/or permanent:
“In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.”
—Henry James (1843–1816)
“A country whose buildings are of wood, can never increase in its improvements to any considerable degree.... Whereas when buildings are of durable materials, every new edifice is an actual and permanent acquisition to the state, adding to its value as well as to its ornament.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)