A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable,
but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
~ George Bernard Shaw
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One of the places I went when I visited Philadelphia was the Rodin museum. This sculpture of George Bernard Shaw was inside. The Thinker was outside. I enjoyed the museum, though there were some creepy pieces there. It looked like much of the art was donated by a couple who had lived in Philadelphia.
I think collecting art is cool, but whenever I see large art collections donated, I wonder where the people kept the art before they donated it. Did they have it on display in their home? Did they have it in storage?
Also, I wonder, given the amount of sculpture at this museum, couldn't they have made a better sign than this?:
I am just disappointed that the Rodan museum didn't seem to more prominently feature that big pterodactyl thingy that fought Godzilla. That would be a good lesson for a museum--how history shows again and again that nature points out the folly of man.
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