[In a museum gallery being developed to showcase saltwater tidal… — 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 9-10, 1967, edited by William Buxton, published by U. of Alberta Press, 2026, p 115

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[In a museum gallery being developed to showcase saltwater tidal flats] It’s environmental, as far as you go, particularly environmental – but somehow or other, fragments of environment. [to the Guide] How about odours? In this kind of an environment, the overwhelming effect that balsam and pine and resinous odours have would be great.

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 9-10, 1967, edited by William Buxton, published by U. of Alberta Press, 2026, p 115

Quote #4837

Year: 1967

Chapter: Museum