After visiting the Brooklyn Museum with Macaulay, I’m realizing that museums serve the very important purpose of bringing people together to understand art. In such a diverse city like New York, there are so many different people constantly interacting with each other, just like within the Macaulay community. During my experience at the Brooklyn museum, I was able to see this diverse blend of struggles and cultural values in person through art, and what made it better was my real world friends of so many backgrounds to experience them with me as well. Whether it was through composition or purpose, every piece was unique, and the differences within the people around me helped me understand the importance of diversity and different values in art. For these reasons, I think it is imperative that Macaulay students visit more museums and keep an open mind, taking into account both their own and other communities.