New York has one of the richest art museum ecosystems in the world, with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum all located within the same borough—and that’s to say nothing of the Brooklyn Museum, the Queens Museum, the Bronx Museum, and many other institutions that make this city’s art world go round.

But according to Zohran Mamdani, New York City’s Mayor-elect, the best museum is none of these. Instead, it’s “our subway system,” as he told the New York Times this week.

Yes, the MTA’s transit system has a “crumbling” infrastructure, as he put it, and yes, there are seemingly more subway issues than ever. But there are also “beautiful murals and pieces of art across our subway system,” he told the Times. He praised the MTA for offering “the fulfillment of art as being something for the public to engage with, no matter how much money is in their pocket.”