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...Museums could play an important role fostering at once national and international citizens, especially since only one quarter of Americans own a passport whereas one third of Americans visit an art museum every year,” Burgard said...
Experts assembled from across the country to form a mosaic of perspectives and opinions. Speaking during the event were Elliot B. Davis of Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), Kathleen A. Foster of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Timothy A. Burgard of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Each participant presented a separate statement, delving into a particular aspect of the afternoon’s themes before briefly convening as a panel for a question-and-answer session...
According to Foster, art institutions are fundamentally linked to local identity. “There really is no such thing as a universal museum. I think every museum from small to large is really a local institution,” she said. Broadening the scope of the discussion, Burgard presented a more critical and incisive assessment. He condemned what he saw as a “protracted and self conscious attempt to fix a uniform American cultural identity” within museums...
...Burgard argued that “we might question the motivation, validity and relevance of [this attempt] in an era of increasingly complex cultures and conflicts. Indeed, once outside the confines of the customs line at an airport, the perception of a dichotomy between American and non-American or even un-American validates assumptions that it instead ought to challenge...
...We’re a small department; we don’t have a number of different programs where we could cut one,” said German professor Peter J. Burgard. “At this point it’s all too vague as to what we should be looking at in terms of cuts...