Post #412630 by Swanky on Fri, Oct 10, 2008 7:55 AM

Actually, I know kohalacharms would support a museum with his collection if it existed. It's that very notion that drives him. A complete collection where you might have an "Islander" display with everything in it.

And you don't have to donate your stuff. How many times do you see items in a museum that are on loan from the collection of some private individual.

I'd love to start a catalog online. Take ooga-mooga to the next level and do some serious archiving of everything. Every location and every item known to be from that location. You put a museum in place and you pick your exhibits. People loan their items. If they want, they give them at death and the museum can display or store or sell them. A duplicate just adds the the museum funds.

I've always said context is everything with art. On a thrift store shelf it's junk, in a museum or the Book of Tiki, it is art. Or, it's a curio. One of the many goofy museums like a breakfast cereal museum or soemthing...