Museum fatigue

Gilman, B. I. (1916). Museum fatigue.

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Year

1916

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Mechanisms

• Exhibit Design
  • Its characteristic failure mode is museum fatigue: attention, legs, and interpretive appetite are finite, and an exhibit that stages too many equally-weighted objects over too long a path loses its audience well before the intended climax, so the last third is walked past unseen.

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