Museum of Tolerance

flippyshark · 05-05-2006, 08:24 PM

I am guessing the museum does also include artifacts of tolerance. I don't know what these would include, not having been there, but surely documents and images related to the passing of civil rights law, liberation of concentration camps, and so on. It would behoove them to tell the whole story and not end the experience on an unresolved downer. (Also, it would be hard to find artifacts of tolerance that were not connected to its opposite. It's a story that has to be told via stark relief.)

The Mutter Museum in Philadelphia has no Mutters, but lots of amazing medical abberations and curiousities. Likewise, the Rijksmuseum might not have any rijks. (okay, just being silly)

Alex · 05-05-2006, 10:08 PM

But neither of those are The Museum of X. And I'm sure the museum must have something that shows tolerance (though the About page for the museum mentions nothing of the sort; the ToleranCenter "focus[es] on the major issues of intolerance that are part of their daily lives.")

Look at me, arguing a relatively minor point of no interest to either party. Is anybody surprised? Regardless of age appropriateness or goodness of mission, I'm inclined to disapprove of any institution that went forward with naming something "ToleranCenter."

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flippyshark Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Orlando, FL Posts: 2,852	I am guessing the museum does also include artifacts of tolerance. I don't know what these would include, not having been there, but surely documents and images related to the passing of civil rights law, liberation of concentration camps, and so on. It would behoove them to tell the whole story and not end the experience on an unresolved downer. (Also, it would be hard to find artifacts of tolerance that were not connected to its opposite. It's a story that has to be told via stark relief.) The Mutter Museum in Philadelphia has no Mutters, but lots of amazing medical abberations and curiousities. Likewise, the Rijksmuseum might not have any rijks. (okay, just being silly)
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Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	But neither of those are The Museum of X. And I'm sure the museum must have something that shows tolerance (though the About page for the museum mentions nothing of the sort; the ToleranCenter "focus[es] on the major issues of intolerance that are part of their daily lives.") Look at me, arguing a relatively minor point of no interest to either party. Is anybody surprised? Regardless of age appropriateness or goodness of mission, I'm inclined to disapprove of any institution that went forward with naming something "ToleranCenter."
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