Name: 【TEDx】How I learned to stop hating and love museums | Nick Gray | TEDxFoggyBottom
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The paintings have nothing to do with me.

That's how I felt  until about four years ago

A woman brought me to the Metropolitan Museum of Art

It's the most popular museum in all of America.

It's the second most popular museum in the entire world,

and yet, to me and my friends  in New York City,

this place, this museum, is just a tourist attraction.

This is the type of place you go when your parents are in town.

I didn't have a relationship with it until that night.

She said, "Let's go  to the museum," and we went.

It was the middle of December on a Saturday night.

The museums open late on Friday and Saturday nights.

she began to give me a private tour showing me things she liked.

I don't know if it was the very romantic mood lighting that night,

or maybe it was the snow  falling down in Central Park,

or maybe it was just having a very attractive woman talk to me.

But something magic happened, and that night I fell in love

I'm not joking. I really fell in love  with the museum.

I started going there every single weekend.

It unlocked within me a sense of curiosity about history and art

But during the weekend, this became my new hobby.

I looked things up on Wikipedia. I found YouTube videos.

I loved it so much that I started doing free tours for my friends.

These are some photos of those tours: me showing my friends around the museum,

It's helpful to keep in mind that I was a business major in college.

They were basically ten cool things I found,

On my tours, I would bring  my friends to an object like this.

This is a Goa stone case made in the early 1700s

on the west coast of India meant to house a Goa stone.

This was a ball about the size of a pool ball

that the Jesuit priests believed had magical mystical properties.

It was worth way more than its weight in gold.

They thought that you could shave off a piece of a Goa stone

and put it into a cup of tea, and it would cure any type of poison.

They thought that you could drop a Goa stone into the well,

and it would cure the plague for a 100 miles around.

During my tours, we would get down  on our hands and knees

"Think about this. What would you put inside of it if you stole it?"

Their answer, by the way, was usually chocolate or drugs.

My friends told their friends, and their friends told their friends.

to do on a Friday or Saturday night in New York City.

We did birthday parties that looked like this.

A blog wrote about my tours, and the next day,

1,000 people emailed me  wanting to join one of the tours.

I started to recruit my friends to help me out.

that two years ago, I quit my job, and I have spent every day since then

trying to reimagine the adult museum experience.

I'm going to tell you what we do that is different from most museum tours

Three main things that make us different: guides, games, and gossip.

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