Heritage of Humanity
"The grand, tarnished panorama of History amounts, as I see it, to a flow of interpretations, a confused consensus of unreliable eyewitness accounts. The novelist is all of us, and we narrate whenever we see, because seeing is complex like everything."
—Fernando Pessoa
The International Council of Museums defines a museum as "a permanent institution in the service of society and of its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits the tangible and intangible heritage of humanity and its environment, for the purposes of education, study, and enjoyment."
From 2008 through 2009 I photographed over 120 museums and visitor centers in Alabama, California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee and the District of Columbia.
