I don't give you visual cues at MONA that most museums give you".
"People like choices," Ms. Schwarzer said, "and when museums give more choices, the response is positive".
While our big art institutions give us, too often, the obvious, our university and college museums give us the unknown.
Among the displays are new commissions and historical artworks on loan from museums, giving the show a welcome multigenerational quality.
Making iconic items accessible to as many people as possible is at the heart of what museums give to the nation," said Sir Michael Dixon, director of the Natural History Museum.
For example, few American mainstream museums give space to the agonized, outré emotionalism of 16th-century Spanish religious art, the kind of painting John of the Cross would have seen.
Minnesota has about 600 museums, giving it twice as many per capita as the national average, according to Lin Nelson-Mayson, chairwoman of the Minnesota Association of Museums and director of the Goldstein Museum of Design at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
Some museums give silver less display space than they once did.
Manask noted that the only looming area of concern is complaints by area restaurants that the nonprofit status of museums gives their food services an unfair advantage.
In a letter dated 1824 or 1825 Gustav Waagen, later Director of the Berlin Museums, gave his interpretation of Latin inscriptions he had seen on the original frame of the portrait, which was subsequently lost.
