We have an elevator that talks. It tells you what floor you are entering on
and what floor you depart. The only problem is that sometimes people are too
involved trying to figure out what the signage means to pay any attention to
the voice of the elevator. At least there's no music.

At 05:01 PM 7/28/96 -0500, you wrote:
>Frank,
>
>We have exactly the same situation at the Guggenheim uptown.  We have a
>sign in the elevator that tells which buttons to push for which floors.  It
>goes so far as to name the exhibitions on each floor, indicate which floors
>are museum offices, which floor is the exit (2 strangely enough), etc.
>
>The problem has a simple reason, people don't read.   One answer is to put
>in an elevator operator (in one of our elevators we actually do this - it's
>staffed by security on an hourly rotation).
>
>The only other option is to key off those floors which the public is not
>invited to and give the staff keys to the floors they may access.  Makes it
>hard, though, if you have visitors to the administrative floors and they
>are allowed to go up by themselves.
>
>Conversely, its nice to be able to lock off floors to unauthorized staff
>when installations are in progress in the gallery levels.
>
>
>Suzanne
>
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>Suzanne Quigley
>Head Registrar, Collections and Exhibitions
>Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
>1071 Fifth Avenue
>New York, NY 10128
>212 423 3568
>fax: 212 423 3650
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