WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorneys have made closing arguments in a case that will determine the future of one of the nation’s oldest museums and one of the few independent art galleries in Washington.

Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art want to merge the museum and its art college into George Washington University and the National Gallery of Art, dissolving the Corcoran after years of financial troubles. A group of students and faculty has fought the merger in court, arguing there are ways to save the Corcoran.