Walk through a major museum renovation today and the wall text has quietly shrunk. In its place: projection, ambient sound, screens that respond to movement, rooms built around a single sensory idea rather than a row of objects with labels. The shift has been gradual enough that most visitors have not consciously noticed it happening.
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