In addition to the topic that we have been seeing (traveling exhibits to show in shopping malls) there is the topic of mini-museums located in shopping mall store spaces. And of displays in shopping malls in general. For instance the Vallco shopping mall in Cupertino, CA has a small museum, a branch of the Santa Clara County museum, in a store space. I don't know anything about it other than having seen it. I would assume the mall management is making the space available for free at a time when they have some vacancies and would rather have the museum there than have another empty store. The same mall formerly had a display of electronics artifacts around an escalator well. This was removed some years ago in a remodeling; and again I don't know if the mall wanted it out or if the electronics museum there wanted the stuff back - I'm assuming the items were on loan from the electronics museum. Airports are a somewhat similar venue. If I remember correctly the San Jose airport has had some displays related to Silicon Valley. (Is there anywhere outside Silicon Valley that you see roadside billboards extolling the features of some integrated circuit chip set?) We could talk about shopping mall art. Hillsdale in San Mateo has (I guess they still have - been a few years since I've been there) a collection of animal sculptures by the late Beniamino Bufano, a San Francisco artist and sculptor of considerable fame. These are wonderfully appropriate for the setting, because they are art, yet Bufano's style is to make them very smooth and entirely suitable for children to climb all over. Solano Mall in Fairfield has four hanging sculptures in the form of whimsical flying machines, apropos the Air Force base in the vicinity. The last time I saw them they were much in need of cleaning. Northwest Arkansas Mall has overhead in the corridors wood strips arranged in the motif of Fay Jones architecture. (Fay Jones lives in that area.) I haven't decided whether it's good that they are celebrating the great local architect, or whether it's evil that they are using in a purely decorative way a design that is structurally essential in Fay Jones buildings. (Or whether one person in a thousand even notices the overhead and recognizes the Fay Jones motif.)