Whether they come to swim, sail or simply observe, visitors are flocking to the small English seaside town of Lymington.
Observing visitors arriving for the inaugural ceremonies, I expected to see "grown-ups" dragging suitcases filled with tuxedos and ball gowns.
Since the Met commissioned them to make a piece for the space, Barnes, Bass, and Saenz de Viteri have visited the museum frequently — sometimes three or four times a week — to observe visitor viewing habits and clandestinely rehearse.
The country's cautious tourism policy, guided by sustainability, closely observes visitor numbers.
The bones have been left where they were found, and ongoing excavations can be observed by visitors.
To their surprise, the two sociologists observed that visitors spent longest looking at a couple of rather academic items, apparently of secondary interest, by Pierre Révoil and François Marius Granet, respectively.
Moreover, the changes we observed in visitors' reasoning are consistent with both historical (Mayr 1982; Quammen 2006) and ontogenetic patterns of change (Evans 2000; Legare et al. 2012).
Previous studies have also found the morning to be a key period for park-based physical activity, with fewer visitors observed being sedentary and more visitors observed walking [ 30] and engaged in vigorous activity [ 20] in the morning compared with other times of the day.
It was unsettling to observe younger visitors gaping in awe at Truman's phonograph player as if it were a relic from ancient times.
Merely observe the visitors as they exit: their knees are weak, their jaws below sea level, and requests to describe what they have just seen are often met with a stammer.
Observing other visitors at the show using the audio guide, I realised that it's also rather like watching an episode of The Walking Dead: people seemingly oblivious to one another shuffle here and there, gather in groups and stare into space, their minds lost to the actor's voice.
