“People are already talking about opening galleries across the street, perhaps building an additional hotel. It will have a mini-Bilbao effect.”

—Eli Broad on Lansing, Michigan’s new Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum

“I hope for a Bilbao effect.”

—Julian Zugaza­goitia on the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas

“Can Roanoke, Virginia, become the next Bilbao?”

—Ana Kolendo and Peter Frumkin on the Taubman Museum of Art