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Emily Behzadi: It s time for Latinx residents to have a national museum. Here s why. Emily Behzadi © Provided by The LA Times A mural in Salazar Park in East Los Angeles by Paul Botello entitled, The Wall that Speaks, Sings and Shouts. The mural speaks to the history of the Latino culture. (Anne Cusack/Los Angeles Times) Museums are more than mere houses for pieces of fine art and artifacts. They function as complex gateways to culture, history, philosophy and social structures. The modern museum is a byproduct of 18th- and 19th-century elitism and colonialism, when traditional pillars of Western civilization (Classical Greece, Ancient Rome, Italian Renaissance, etc.) were of utmost importance. From its inception, the modern museum in the United States has primarily maintained a Eurocentric focus, historically grounded in exclusionary practices based on social, cultural and racial structures.

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