I checked out this exhibit. The conversations ranged from interesting to forced. One guy asked why there was no lobby for crazy people. We replied that crazy isn’t really a technical term, and if we’re discussing schizophrenics, or people with mental disabilities, there are lobbies supporting them, so what was he talking about? He didn’t really have much of a response to that.

The highlight of the show though was that after we finished our ascent, we returned to the ground floor of the museum and watched as visitors, unaware of the structure of the exhibit, were approached by the children who started off the progression. Most allowed themselves to be led into the exhibit, but some, either because they didn’t understand English or they simply were put off by being approached by a child, bulled past and began to climb the spiral ramp with no accompaniment. Because the transition from one guide to the next was a handoff, I have to imagine that these people didn’t ever really participate in the exhibit, and must have wondered what all the fuss was about in the midst of an almost completely empty museum.