Post-Art Clarity

I once asked a friend, somewhat facetiously, about what might happen if all museums ceased to exist tomorrow; in fairness, this predated Trump's systematic defunding of galleries and museums, decrying them as 'woke'. Needless to say, this is not what I meant. In my experience of visiting museums, I have found them to be placid, often sterile places, with an unignorably stagnant atmosphere. Maybe it is the 'best intentions' upon which these institutions are striving in the twenty-first century that keep them stagnant. A need to refrain from rocking the boat in order to keep funding. My question was ultimately: who are museums for? Who do they speak to? What, or who, are they afraid of? Do they hold any real influence? Enter stage right: the Fenix Museum in Rotterdam. I would argue that a museum has never been more urgently needed than this, here and now. Fenix prides itself on being Europe's first art museum dedicated to migration. Despite being a reality for lar...