And the performing arts center is being conceived as a central component in the revitalization of Lower Manhattan, a cultural nexus that will consolidate what has been referred to as downtown's "kingdom of minor museums" into a major engine of economic recovery.
If you'd rather consume culture than ale, IPA or Imperial Stout, the complex's Arts District houses dozens of art and dance studios, a few galleries and minor museums, and sundry special events, including free outdoor movies on summer Saturday nights.
There are densely packed markets, unsung churches and small museums filled with minor masterpieces.
The old dining room was always compared to a corporate boardroom, but for some reason its monumental scale and profusion of framed canvases in an antiquated style made me think of the atrium of a minor art museum.
The research of Jesse Chen, a Writing Seminars major with a minor in museums and society, examines contemporary Asian-American identity.
With an average of only £10,000 ($14,584) available to each collecting department, they will be unable to buy anything other than minor items from museum funds.
In this exhibition, museums and society minor Emily Carambelas considered how museums balance their mission with religious instructions regarding the preservation, interpretation, and display of sacred objects.
But almost 20 years later, these are minor questions for the museum's 1.7 million annual visitors.
Instead of embracing this, the powers that be have relegated it to a minor subsection of a museum devoted to the decorative arts.
Since the coalition of Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) with Guido Westerwelle's Free Democrats (FDP) took office in late October, a row over Afghanistan has toppled one minister and engulfed a second; the government has enacted tax cuts nobody seems to want; and it has feuded bitterly over a minor appointment to a museum.
