Dear‘ colleagues, Bridges to the world - the umbrella title of this year's AAM convention has puzzled me quite a bit. If you talk about building blidges, you talk about divides, don’t you? Is there indeed a divide between museums and the world? Are museums ivory towers? I find it hard to believe, celtainly here in the US. You all know your external stakeholders, don’t you, and your trustees, they do represent the outside world, don’t they? %이at has also puzzled me was that notion of bridge to ?1e world. It’s so unidirectional: from the museum to the world rather than between the two of them. Why is that so? Is there a feeling amongst museums that they will have to act now, otherwise become too isolated and obsolete?