ABSTRACT
Contributing to the theme of Global and World Art in the Practice of the University Museum, This chapter acknowledges the enormous accomplishments of the Fowler Museum at the University of California, Los Angeles. With the integration and level of student and teaching in mind, with a deep respect for the public trust that museums serve, we can create a true complex and contemporary discipline of museum studies for today's museums and for the students who will work in them. Museums are changing more rapidly than ever before. Not only have they become the sites of preservation and transmission of knowledge, but also sites of idea-generation, questioning, expansive conversations, and creativity. Art museums are unique in the world of museums and they need to be revisited and reframed for today in a manner and design that will serve them exclusively. Making connections through art is what museums will increasingly be called upon to do; in fact, they must make the effort.
