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For your discussion topic this week I would like you to reflect on the role of MUSEUMS in modern culture.Let’s revisit some of the writing of the historian Dr. Dr. Elizabeth RodiniArt museums today continue to struggle with issues of social relevance, elitism, and ownership. Many professionals worry about “threshold fear,” the idea that museums intimidate visitors who were not raised in a museum culture and feel unwelcome and unrepresented in their galleries.Others believe art museums are sacrificing their traditional role by bending to popular culture and the market, exhibiting motorcycles, tennis shoes, and runway fashions to draw in visitors. As museums become spaces of international attention, particularly tourism, some see them neglecting local communities: the Guggenheim, for example, has been criticized for favoring famous international artists at the expense of regional ones. The role of an expanding global museum paradigm is equally complicated.Clearly, museums have never been neutral spaces, and the conceit that they present widely shared social values to which we all aspire is wildly out of date. Art museums in the early twenty-first century are charged political spaces where social struggles are being played out on powerful, highly visible stages.The questions I pose for your reflection this week:Should art museums underscore cultural continuities, perhaps encouraging empathy, or should they highlight cultural differences and express diversity?Who should decide what objects or what art is represented in modern museums? What do YOU value in museums that are within the geographical zone close to you?