When An Exhibit Feels Like A Pop-Up Version Of An Article

Visitors to the “Terra Cotta Warriors” show at the National Geographic Museum spent “more time on the texts that line the galleries’ walls than on the statues displayed across their floors. It was often easier to get face time with a 2,000-year-old terra cotta warrior than an unjostled view of the text panel that explained him.” So why “were we so happy to be there?”