Vision Statement: Draft - Patty

I think this needs some work but here is a draft:

MOFIA’s Vision Statement

The Museum of Food in America grew out of the idea that food is one of the most foundational and resonant aspects of a person’s life. Culture, law, conflict, economy, community, every aspect of life is informed by food. In America this statement holds true. Food in America is cultural, economic, at times spiritual, political, communal, related to diet, disorder, diversity, and of course taste! Museums specialize in important, engaging, and relevant topics for people from all types of ethnicities, backgrounds, classes, and areas of thought. MOFIA exists to fill the gap in American history, culture, politics and much more, through the lens of food and its relation to our lives and experiences in the United States.

Through exhibitions, programming, events, interpretive materials, and events MOFIA strives to be relevant to visitors, bring engaging food knowledge to anyone and everyone who walks through our door or visits our website, and gather rich histories and memories through our interpretive materials and oral history archive project.

We aim to be a leader in the research world, providing spaces in our institution for research through our collection and archive. We will provide access to our collections through our website and exhibitions. We will foster bonds with communities and their food cultures through our oral history project, the Memory Food Bank, and aim to uncover stories from all walks of life and from around the United States. Our vision is to be a resource to researches, teachers, students from pre-school to high school, under-graduate and graduate school and beyond, academics, families, teenagers, seniors, and tourists.

We will be the leaders in exhibitions and programming related to food in the United States and hopes to be published and written about in small and large popular and academic publications. We aim to be accessible to all visitors, from those who speak different languages, to the disabled, to families, and school children.

Our vision is supported by our values to educate, be resonant and relatable, be fun and playful, to be accessible to all types of visitors, as well as tackle issues and conflicts that are deeply embedded in food in the United States.