I love the idea of a memory stone - something which when you see it or touch it, brings back a whole flood of memories. I expect that the collections of stones and fossils contributed to the museum over the years have their own story, if only their collectors were still around to tell it. When an artefact is behind a glass display case, we lose that idea of what it felt like for its discoverer to touch and hold it. More prosaically, talking of the kids eating reminds me of the old museum's coffee shop - I hope the new one doesn't have a depressing view over the graveyard like the old one. Although headstones are more memory stones, I suppose - just less portable.

I really don't find the view over the graveyard depressing. If anything it keeps you immersed in the museum and gives you clemency from having to return to the rat race that is modern life.

I loved the view over the graveyard - if nothing else, it was beautiful.