I believe profoundly in the importance of museums; I would go as far as to say that you can judge a society by the quality of its museums.

- Richard Fortey

The great proliferation of museums in the nineteenth century was a product of the marriage of the exhibition as a way of awakening intelligent intere…

- Richard Fortey

You must not lie about trilobites, nor yet about time.

- Richard Fortey

Museums have no political power, but they do have the possibility of influencing the political process. This is a complete change from their role in …

- Richard Fortey

A life accumulates a collection: of people, work and perplexities. We are all our own curators.

- Richard Fortey

I wonder if we are seeing a return to the object in the science-based museum. Since any visitor can go to a film like Jurassic Park and see dinosaurs…

- Richard Fortey