The phrase "a time when museums" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a specific period or occasion related to museums, often in discussions about their role or significance.
Example: "There was a time when museums were the primary source of knowledge for the public."
Alternatives: "an era in which museums" or "a period during which museums".
The remodeling is happening at a time when museums' antiquities holdings have been a focus of patrimony disputes, leaving potential donors possibly skittish about negative publicity.
There will be a time when museums spend brainpower putting together deeply intelligent exhibitions on representations of violence in video games or on depictions of women in the games of various cultures.
At a time when museums, galleries, and collectors' homes are full of massive color prints by Andreas Gursky, Cindy Sherman, and Thomas Ruff, the idea that color photographs were once not just unfashionable but unsalable seems impossibly quaint.
At a time when museums dedicated to preserving local history were at risk of being seen as outmoded and irrelevant, Crossley said the festival helped themreassert their own importance.
Nimbly pulled together since last summer, the exhibition comes at a time when museums are taking an increasing interest in the visual products of protest, frantically trying to keep up by acquiring the physical artefacts of current events.
Fortunately, Mr. Keller arranged a part-time job for Mrs. McLean, doing community outreach for the the Wadsworth Atheneum at a time when museums nationwide were coming under attack for underrepresenting African-American art in their collections.
Everett had that dream at a time when museum information meant scribblings on file cards".
It will take time to understand whether the galleries have the right balance of personality and neutrality, but their humility is encouraging at a time when museum commissions are often seen as the last great opportunities for architectural willfulness.
Part of his secret may be that at a time when museum directors are increasingly bottom-line-focused types, or even former art dealers, who have less in common with artists or curators than with the high-rolling crowd that buys art as an investment, he doesn't look or act the part of the museum professional.
The Quai Branly museum may be just six years old, but it is in its way old-fashioned, a throwback to a less timorous time when museums were proud to display human scalps and heads shrunken by Amazon tribes (pictured).
Fall is blockbuster season in the art world, the time when museums gird for school groups and holiday crowds.
