The museum placed the display downstairs, below street level, so it was dark and silent.
Muscling aside larger and easier-to-reach museums in Barcelona and Madrid, the museum placed fourth among the most-visited museums of Spain in the 2011 annual global survey conducted by The Art Newspaper, based in London, surpassing even the Guggenheim in Bilbao.
Restored by the British-based David Chipperfield architects, the museum places on display everything from the writer's toothpicks to his blue-and-white-striped silk stockings.
Seeing a baseball bat in a museum places it in the same context as a chieftain's war club or a king's scepter.
It challenges the most basic conceptions of how viewers experience art, and what demands the museum places upon them.
The air temperature and relative humidity were recorded continuously by three Tiny Tag data loggers in each museum placed on three locations (outdoors, indoors and in a showcase).
If a museum places some beacons in its galleries, any bluetooth compliant device can detect and use them for content access.
In response to the protests, the museum placed a curtain over the exhibit's entrance that blocks it from general view and posted a sign warning visitors about potentially offensive content.
The museum places emphasis on "collection, presentation, and interpretation of the artistic expressions of our times," and is set to host an entire exhibition of Albrecht Dϋrer works this May.
The stress that museums place on African ceremonial art of the past, this implies, is a bit like judging modern European art by kitsch replicas of Raphael Madonnas.
