This seems to be the case, to judge by the dazzling, yet instructive display of samurai armour from the Barbier-Mueller collection.
In what is referred to as an addendum to the exhibition, in a display case in one of the center's printmaking studios is a compact, instructive display or flower prints from the 1920's and 1930's.
Alas, both are closed on Mondays, the day I was there, though the Makoshika visitor center has a small but instructive display of fossils that includes an impressive and angry-looking skull of a triceratops, a three-horned beast from something like 65 million years ago.
White-washed walls and stripped pine floors provide the calm setting for this lovely and instructive show.The display is chronological.
From the perspective of contemporary process ontology, the development of German Idealism between 1790 and 1850 in the debate between Fichte, Hegel, and Schelling displays in instructive ways the limitations of a process metaphysics that puts the occurrence type of productions center-stage and, in particular, understands cognition as a production: as a development with a product or result.
It's a breathtaking display: funny, instructive, nostalgic and occasionally -- as in the case of the vast, palacelike, vanished 1892 Prudential Building -- heartbreaking.
The Getty Trust sponsored some expensive interviews in the 1990's, asking what visitors liked about museums, which displays they found instructive, what kinds of promotion worked better than others.
Instructive, but unsettling.
Instructive pleasures abound.
