In the new museum, each of us, curators and visitors alike, will have to become more willing to chart our own path, redrawing the map of modern art, rather than following a single path laid down by a curator. Our aim must be to generate a condition in which visitors can experience a sense of discovery in looking at particular paintings, sculptures, or installations in a particular room at a particular moment, rather than find themselves standing on the conveyor belt of history.

From Nicholas Serota’s Experience or Interpretation: The Dilemma of Museums of Modern Art, London: Thames and Hudson, 2000, p. 55.