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<p>[QUOTE="say_it_slowly, post: 192402, member: 50"]I don't know that I have any great ideas for a museum. There are so many great ones already and I would love to see more of them!</p><p><br /></p><p>In a way I guess I've started my own as there really has been a method to my madness. It started with old ceramics and then I found a love for archaeology. In archaeology ceramic sherds are often used in the dating of a site so knowing the body, shape, decoration etc is important to understanding a place and the peoples.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don't know too many museum collections where you can just pick up their pieces and examine them to your hearts content. That's where the serious madness began I think. I started collecting examples of ceramics from all sorts of areas and time periods just to be able to touch them. If they have chips all the better because you can see the body. </p><p><br /></p><p>Of course that's not the end of the collecting madness but that is the part that could probably be useful as a hands on museum.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="say_it_slowly, post: 192402, member: 50"]I don't know that I have any great ideas for a museum. There are so many great ones already and I would love to see more of them! In a way I guess I've started my own as there really has been a method to my madness. It started with old ceramics and then I found a love for archaeology. In archaeology ceramic sherds are often used in the dating of a site so knowing the body, shape, decoration etc is important to understanding a place and the peoples. I don't know too many museum collections where you can just pick up their pieces and examine them to your hearts content. That's where the serious madness began I think. I started collecting examples of ceramics from all sorts of areas and time periods just to be able to touch them. If they have chips all the better because you can see the body. Of course that's not the end of the collecting madness but that is the part that could probably be useful as a hands on museum.[/QUOTE]
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