Christine Temin believes American museums need help. “Museums in this country desperately need not just financial help but help in defining their mission, their audience, their ethics. Over the past couple of decades they’ve made considerable noise about trading elitism for accessibility, and that’s certainly backed up by, among other things, a steep increase in education programs, some more effective than others. But $20 tickets to special exhibitions and $15 general admission – the current fees at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston – don’t exactly make the museum more accessible.”