MAGGIE APPLETON

摘要

Being the head of any major national museum is, in many ways, an unenviable task. On the one hand, there is the privilege and pleasure associated with preserving and promoting part of the country's heritage. On the other, there is the conundrum of how to perpetuate that process among new generations, ensuring that venerable institutions remain relevant to the audiences they must attract if they are to survive. Set that against a backdrop of decreasing state funding, and one can understand the difficulties.