Streak, Stroll or Study Permanent Exhibits Can Be Absorbed in Many Ways
The Santa Fe New Mexican › July 30, 2009
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From the moment a visitor pushes open the 10-foot tall, wooded doors into the permanent exhibits of the 96,000-square-foot New Mexico History Museum, the staff wants you to touch, fondle, examine and play.
Please bring your children, let them point and run and guide you. Debate heatedly about what you see, comment on what you don't. But whatever you do, do not treat this new museum as you have been told to treat history: out of reach, out of touch, sealed behind glass and meant to be experienced passively.See the full content of this document
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Streak, Stroll or Study Permanent Exhibits Can Be Absorbed in Many Ways
"A good museum communicates two ways," said Sujit Tolat, an associate with Gallagher & Associates, which designed the exhibits.
She collaborated with the museum's staff to create a technologically modern and broadly accessible exhibition design."The museum has to be a catalyst for dialogue, not a way to ram information down people's throats," Tolat said. "You have to personalize the information you present and contextual it...See the full content of this document
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