Yesterday I visited two museums here in Dallas, The Sixth Floor
Museumwww.jfk.org/inside.htm and the Dallas Holocaust Museum
www.dallasholocaustmuseum.org/ (that last site is very modest,
but in a sense that suits the museum — as I’ll explain). I was
impressed with both of them, and they got me to thinking — as I
did after we went to Valley Forge — about how books relate to
the other ways young people get information. The impressive
thing about both museums is how they understood their physical
space and made best use of it. Like all musuems these days, they
each had an audio tour that gives you a voice over related to
specific places. But they also recognized that a museum is a
physical space — it is a kind of stage set — as you walk through
it you not only see what is on the walls, you experience the
place. And that means the designers have to understand the space
they have. A Museum is a three-dimensional, not a two-
dimensional experience. The Sixth Floor Museum is located in the
School Book Depository fro