This year we saw museum-goers with the power to x-ray paintings on their phones, algorithms that could beat an art historian, and an easel that could probe artworks with hyperspectral imaging.
Fifty percent more schoolchildren have seen museum exhibitions, and the museum's endowment and its total budget have both doubled, she said.
Although she focuses intensely on her work, Ms. Fishman, who lives in and keeps a studio in Manhattan, routinely makes time to see museum and gallery shows.
And in some of the interstices between its pavilions — where one might have been grimly prepared to see museum gift shops — it has areas outfitted with comfortable chairs and couches and stocked with stacks of art books for browsing.
If we get it wrong then we'll see museum agriculture in Europe for the next 20 years".
Open to the public, the hangar allows visitors to see museum staff and volunteers at work on a variety of conservation tasks.
"Seeing museums and other collections has been an important part of my life.
"I think we'll see museums get into it more and more".
They see museums as symbols of confidence, sources of public education and places in which a young country can present a national narrative.
