Local museums of whatever culture and location are forced to redefine their meaning, purpose, and function both contextually and globally. Since art museums connect to a given society and its official self-interpretation, they have also to act as civic laboratory which implies that they have to offer tempting narrations about the relation of art, society, and history not only for visitors from abroad but also for the broad cultural and social spectrum of the local clientele. The delicate agenda of positioning a museum between the local and the global raises questions of how to respond to intercultural and transnational aspects of art while ensuring a place-bound genealogy of art history, and of how to deal with both - traditional "art", if it can be labeled as such, and global, that is contemporary art.