Museum takes place in a museum gallery where works by three artists are being displayed: one artist has made a series of small sculptures, another has assembled an installation using mannequins, and the third has painted a series of four all-white canvases. (Howe's play was first produced in 1976, two decades before Yasmina Reza made the same joke about an all-white canvas in her hit play Art.) A security guard keeps an eye on the artworks and on the museum's visitors. Those visitors come from all areas of society—different ethnic groups, different age groups, different social classes.
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