Editor’s Note: The following piece is written by Mike Mathis, manager of publication and video services communications and community relations in the New Jersey Administrative Office of the Courts.

Some museums are grand. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, with its Greek columns and arched entries. The Philadelphia Museum of Art, known for its towering staircase that fictional boxer Rocky Balboa famously scaled. The Guggenheim, with its domed skylight and spiral ramp gallery.