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More Delightful Secrets: How Much Space Would You Give to an Exclusive Subset of your Audience?

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I visited two museums in which resources were devoted to experiences that only a tiny fraction of the visiting public would consume. As my husband said, that secret room with its mousy trappings was "the coolest part of the whole museum." Tags: design inclusion. Let me explain.

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In Support of Idiosyncrasy

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People often ask me which museums are my favorite. I visit lots of perfectly nice, perfectly forgettable museums. In some cases, that's based on subject matter, as at the Museum of Jurassic Technology or the American Visionary Art Museum. Some are scrappy and iconoclastic, like the City Museum in St.

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Take a Seat: Beautiful, Casual Areas at the Taiwan National Museum of Fine Arts

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When I was in Taiwan, I heard again and again from museum professionals: "We are very conservative in Taiwanese museums. This post is a photo essay focusing on an area at the Taiwan National Museum of Fine Arts called the Digiark. Tags: design comfort. This may be true. I didn't see a single comment book on my trip.

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