American Museum may refer to
- American Museum of Radio and Electricity
- American Museum of Natural History
- American Museum of the Moving Image
- American Museum of Magic
- American Museum of Science and Energy
- American Museum in Britain
- Barnum's American Museum
- The American Museum (magazine), an 18th-century American magazine
- The American Museum, a 19th-century American magazine published by Nathan C. Brooks
Famous quotes containing the words american and/or museum:
“The mystical nature of American consumption accounts for its joylessness. We spend a great deal of time in stores, but if we don’t seem to take much pleasure in our buying, it’s because we’re engaged in the acts of sacrifice and self-definition. Abashed in the presence of expensive merchandise, we recognize ourselves ... as supplicants admitted to a shrine.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)
“When I go into a museum and see the mummies wrapped in their linen bandages, I see that the lives of men began to need reform as long ago as when they walked the earth. I come out into the streets, and meet men who declare that the time is near at hand for the redemption of the race. But as men lived in Thebes, so do they live in Dunstable today.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)