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Museums, I think, are becoming more and more aware of how to turn themselves into a must-see spectacle.

A lot of our insights are based on the ways in which people spend time at museums. They're curious, open, interested, and engaging. They want to express themselves and see their own identity refracted through the museum's.

A collection that embraces the whole world allows you to consider the whole world. That is what an institution such as the British Museum is for.

I want to bring back the human encounter into places where material things have a prime status. In a museum, you're supposed to look at things and not talk to other people.

Outside museums, in noisy public squares, people look at people. Inside museums, we leave that realm and enter what might be called the group-mind, getting quiet to look at art.

Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks.

Museums are like the quiet car of the world. It's a place you can come to escape, where there's authenticity, there's uniqueness, there's calm, there's physicality.

A museum should not just be a place for fancy paintings but should be a place where we can communicate our lives through our everyday objects.

It's a lovely experience walking around a museum by yourself.

I'm constantly making exhibitions in my head.