San Miguel needs a serious art museum in order to enhance
its standing in the international art world. How can the global art community
look at this city with any respect without one? Until we have a credible art museum
we will remain merely a gathering place for bohemian artists. Exciting enough,
I admit, and I don’t see any problem with continuing just as we are. However,
if the intensified emphasis on tourism by the current mayor’s administration is
a reliable indication of the direction in which this city wishes to go, then we
will always have gaping hole in our cultural life. The recently opened Europa
House on Calle San Francisco, while wonderful in itself, is no substutute for a
museum. No urban center that is serious about becoming a cultural destination
can afford to be lacking in a city-supported museum of the visual arts.
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