John Berger - research

"The majority of the population do not visit art museums."

It then goes onto say.

"The majority takes it as axiomatic that the museums are full of holy relics which refer to a mystery which excludes them : the mystery of unaccountable wealth.

Or, to put this another way, they believe that original masterpieces belong to the preserve (both materially and spiritually) of the rich. 

Another table indicates what the idea of an art gallery suggests to each social class":

Taken from pages of 'Ways Of Seeing' by John Berger