​In the early nineteenth century, the public museum was founded upon a "crusade against ignorance" and charged with the responsibility of disseminating academic taste and new values of progress to the masses. Even then, it had an agenda beyond mere vanity of display. Today, the museum continues to play an inextricable role in the physical, psychic, and ceremonial life of the modern city. More than a civic monument, it must serve many needs other than simply providing uninterrupted visual access to art. Indeed, it ruminates a different agenda for a different party. For the city, it is a crucial jigsaw, the missing piece that assumes the part of a city square, one that physically reinstates a newfound cultural sensibility and urbanity. For the masses and for the policymakers, it represents the very essence of their being, a culture that is made transparent by objects put up on display.