<div class="gmail_quote">On 8 November 2010 08:24, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dieterdreist@gmail.com">dieterdreist@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Well, what is your definition of museum? I don't have to follow<br>
slavishly wikipedia but I took this as a first indication.<br><br></blockquote><div><br>This reminds me of turning to the dictionary for a definition of "democracy" when debating political philosophy. There have been thousands of years of debate and disagreement over the arts - what constitutes art, what gives it meaning, what makes somebody an artist, what we mean by "the art world", and so on.<br>
<br>That is why I don't think we should turn to Wikipedia for guidance, even for a first indication. We might consult the Dewey system to see how it categorised things, though recognising we have a more powerful tool in our hands.<br>
<br>We shouldn't expect something so resistant to definition to easily fit into a short dictionary definition or worst of all a Wikipedia decision.<br><br>Regards,<br>Tom <br></div></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><a href="http://tom.acrewoods.net">http://tom.acrewoods.net</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/tom_chance">http://twitter.com/tom_chance</a><br>