If it is moccasins or skis or snowshoes or canoes or railways or… — The Museum as Large-Room Pinball Machine, Marshall McLuhan, Harley Parker, and Museum Professionals, 1967, full transcript of a seminar at the City Museum of New York, October, 1967, edited by William Buxton, published by U. of Alberta Press, 2026, p 65

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If it is moccasins or skis or snowshoes or canoes or railways or motor cars – no matter what the object is historically, it creates for itself a new environment, it enables people to enter into totally new relationships to space.

The Museum as Large-Room Pinball Machine, Marshall McLuhan, Harley Parker, and Museum Professionals, 1967, full transcript of a seminar at the City Museum of New York, October, 1967, edited by William Buxton, published by U. of Alberta Press, 2026, p 65

Quote #4829

Year: 1967

Chapter: Museum