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Behind the scenes at the museum
Monday 7th October 2024
Ten Poems about Museums
In these vivid poems selected by David Clarke, we enter museums both real and imaginary to discover a host of beguiling artefacts.
Museums manage to contain whole worlds. They can show us life as it was lived in past centuries or prompt us to imagine how the future might unfold. Some of the objects in a museum may be workaday, but they have a remarkable power to express deep truths about our human lives.
What characterises every museum is the ability to inspire a sense of wonder and possibility. Museums are places we should cherish and these poems demonstrate and celebrate that compelling fact.