Adults and children sometimes have boards in their bedrooms or livingrooms on which they pin pieces of paper: letters, snapshots, reproductions of paintings, newspaper cuttings, original drawings, postcards. On such boards all the images belong to the same language and all are more-or-less equal within it, because they have been chosen in a highly personal way to match and express the experience of the room’s inhabitant. Logically, these boards should replace museums.

From John Berger’s Ways of Seeing, London: British Broadcasting Corporation and Penguin Books, 1972, p. 30.

Addendum (January 16, 2003)

By extension, such boards should also replace television shows, exhibitions, novels, public lectures…