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Kua, 

In response to your observation:

"........it is not that the museum "flunks" the visitor, but that the 
museum "flunks" in the mind of the visitor. I believe that if 
something provokes a response in the visitor, either pro or con, then 
that thing has succeeded in some measure. The failure is when the 
response to the object or program is indifference."

I think that it varies greatly with the degree of the in-built
self-assurance of the visitor.  Some take set-backs in life in their
strides, while others feel destroyed by the same experiences.  In our
museums, I think we have to be very mindful of the more vulnerable people
in our audiences (tho' this carried too far can make us pretty tepid).

One's meat is another's poison.

Peter Anderson

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