"They had a real strange perception of what a museum represented, what art means to them."
The museum was opened in 1972 and represents a synthesis of the city's cultural and intellectual life.
The museum represents four disciplines: art, cultural history, science and technology, and natural history.
The museum was opened on July 7, 1995, and represents a main tourist attraction in the town.
Any memorial or museum at the trade center site should represent this.
But the more you look, the more you realize how much has gone into these major pieces, including deep thought about what a museum represents.
The publically-accessible museum itself only represents 25% of the activities which the museum covers.
The private nonprofit museum represents a real grass-roots effort.
"My museum represents the taste of the country more than any of them," he said at the time.
Additional museums and education buildings represented the continued expansion of Gund's practice in these years.