The trendy adoption of the word “museum” has the potential to undermine the trust placed in cultural institutions, perhaps altering our relationship to culture, art, and commerce in the process.

Mitchell Kuga
Mitchell Kuga is a Brooklyn-based culture writer from Honolulu, Hawaii. He has written for publications including Village Voice, Racked, them, and Gothamist. He is the editor of SALT, an independently-published zine about food culture.