I want to make a museum.
I don’t know what kind or what all it would even have in it.
It’ll probably just put a ton of different stuff into a huge building and it’s seemingly not organized in any specific way but it actually is and it’ll be great-
I’ll have fossils and bones and replicas and then there will be huge exhibits and there will be artwork and stuff that’s actually alive and artifacts and all sorts of ways for people to learn about stuff-
ooh, and rocks
lots of rocks
and fungi!
But anyways, I just really want to create something great where people can learn about the things they fear and don’t understand and hopefully grow to love- I want a place where people won’t be blinded by the expectations and norms of society because in this one place- everything is strange and frightening and hard to understand, but that’s what makes it so wonderful. I want a place where I can preserve the past and also bring it to the present, make you feel like you were there, find a new kinship with people that lived thousands of years before you took your first breath. A place where you’re allowed to let free the wild thing inside you that the world has made you cut back in order to fit in. A place where you can learn to understand why you’re like that- why your brain works the way it does, and even though you’re different, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with you. Oh fuck I’m crying-
Okay, an update on the museum, on how it’ll be organized: chronologically. I don’t care where it came from, whether it was man-made, an animal, a plant, it’s going to be in chronological order. To show that we’re the same. That we all grew together, that we’re made of the same things. No matter where we’re from, what we look like, no matter our race, our religion, our species, or when we lived, we got to the point we’re at now together. We all got to this point, growing and striving and dreaming for something greater. Whether that was just hoping to survive, and pass on our genes, or whether we wanted to leave behind something a little more permanent, something that wouldn’t be forgotten. No matter who we are, we came from the same particles. Showing how we all grew as one, just proves that point further.
If my museum ever houses human remains- the exhibits will be laid out like a tomb. However they were laid to rest by the living they left behinf, will be replicated to the best of my ability. The way that human remains are dealt with? Is atrocious. They are separated from the belongings that their friends and families so lovingly laid to rest with them. There is no altar, no offering of food for the afterlife- they are treated lile a specimen, rather than like a person, who was once alive just as we are now.
Museums have very little respect for the dead.
So if at all possible? I hope to rectify this. Those remains cannot be returned, they will be stolen from their graves now that we've unearthed them. So if they cannot go home, they should at least be made to feel at home. Their exhibits should be reconstructions of their resting places, the best that we can manage. The items they were buried with, positioned as they were found. If in their religion, food was left for the dead? There will be offerings left for them every day. We have not allowed the dead to rest in peace. I hope that will be changed one day.
