-----Original Message----- From: Robert A. Baron <[log in to unmask]> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.museum-l To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Date: Monday, March 16, 1998 4:44 PM Subject: Re: Disney...museums & the 21st C How true. For Disney-ites, the "techniques & technology" ARE the message. For museums holding to their mission, they SUPPORT the dissemination of knowledge. >Today museum visitorship is at an all-time high (in New York surpassing >attendance at sporting events!); so I might be forgiven if I claim that in >spite of it all, museums must be doing something right. It may be that they >are borrowing techniques and technology from the theme park experience to >help bring in the masses and to make the museum more accessible, and that >is fine; but technology alone does not make the experience. However, some >people on this list talk as if it does. > >Robert Baron >[log in to unmask]