A nifty idea at MoMa

I wanted a little taste of home this morning so I treated myself to a read of the Daily Telegraph (British newspaper) online whilst enjoying my mid-morning banana. (Yeah, it's an all-day party at my house)

I came across this;

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/9711459/Hatching-new-plans-for-old-objects.html

I think the idea in the article is brill-o-pads. MoMa are asking contemporary artists to act as guest curators by giving them access to their stored collections and then giving them a room to display whatever they want, however they want.

This strikes me as a fun way to let visitors see things that are kept in storage indefinitely because they don't seem to fit with anything else. Also, allowing someone who is not a museum professional to curate an exhibition, while obviously not without risk seems like a great way to inject some innovation into an old institution.

I'd love to have the opportunity to root through a museum storage facility and just display whatever I thought was cool. I also think this would be a fun thing to do with random celebrities if a museum was brave enough. Imagine the kind of information boards Britney Spears would write. It would certainly be a way to entice a new demographic.