“You might...say  ‘I have to be an expert to like that painting,’ but...we are all true experts.”

A museum is not just a place where you go to see things—you can identify with and find so much there. When I went to the National Museum of the American Indian, a man named George was there and he talked about many things, like the indigenous people and ‘el macuto’ which is something that I used in my country. ‘El macuto’ is like a bag, but this is an indigenous word for it. And I thought, ‘Wow, this is where I come from, this is me.’

When you go to these museums and they are talking about what you are and from where you came, it gives you a sense of worth and pride and importance. And it is as if everything changes when they explain the significance of that to you. As you find out things about yourself, you give the same value and respect when they talk about other cultures.