The economics of culture has analysed the question of museums quite intensely and, making a pun on the title of the seminar, I have reformulated it, because the original title is: "What do we want for museums". As if they were dumb children and we have to see what we want for them, for their future. Museums are not autonomous entities, museums are the product, the result of the actions of men and women, so what we have to ask ourselves is what we want museums for, and then we will see what functions museums can fulfil.