So is keeping myself from crossing the line -- I have to keep on the side of the museum-goer.

There are exhibits enough on the other floors to impress even the most jaded museum-goer.

He was a knowledgeable ancient-coin enthusiast and a passionate museum-goer.

So here's an easy measure for the worth of any show: Would a museum-goer's precious time be better spent in it, or in the permanent collection?

A German museum-goer was even inspired to imitate the art and strip naked while walking around the exhibition in December.

Lates have caused the picture of the typical museum-goer to change, and with it, the idea of the typical museum.

Definitely a museum-goer.

These prized mementos of other people's loved ones, ancestors and heroes transport the museum-goer back to an age when lockets were worn the world over.

She was inspired by her two visits to the King Tut exhibit, and the incredibly poor museum-goer experience she underwent.

How does the typical museum-goer distinguish Mr. Louie's pictures of unabashedly naked young women from the general run of pornographic imagery?

Veteran museum director Terrie S. Rouse believes every museum-goer ought to have an "awe" moment -- an instant when a sight takes one's breath away.

The public, it seems to this museum-goer, is more comfortable, hence more appreciative, when it enjoys a spontaneous grasp of orientation and a pulsating series of spaces.

In a relatively short time, the artist's paintings have materialized in all the right places, and the regular museum-goer may have the strange sense that he keeps seeing Mitchells on the wall that weren't there before.

This is a city, after all, where a museum-goer on a sunny Sunday can stroll among the Hockneys and Miros unmolested while wearing a jacket emblazoned: "Fur - the Fabric of a Nation."

Reading the inscriptions A Little Latin Although entire scholarly careers are built on the reading of Latin inscriptions, the average museum-goer can learn to pick out names and key words and phrases, which are often abbreviated.

Considering the miseries of museum fatigue and its effect on the attention span of the museum-goer, Mrs. Dominique de Menil has decreed that only a limited number of works should be displayed in the main galleries on a rotating basis.

By executive order of Ho Chi Minh, an inveterate museum-goer during his 30 years of exile, Hanoi's Fine Arts Museum opened its doors in 1956, two years after the French lost the battle of Dien Bien Phu.

There is also a telephone to which only the band's ex-members have the number: if it rings and a museum-goer picks it up, they will find themselves in the disconcerting position of holding a conversation with one of Abba while standing in front of a vast floor-to ceiling photograph of Abba.