The Met Museum’s New Director On A ‘Fundamental Shift’ In Presentation

Thomas P Campbell: “We assume people know who Rembrandt is, for example … and, frankly, considering our international audience, I doubt whether many of them do know who [he] was, or the significance of a particular period room, in a broader context. What I’m trying to do is to get the museum rethinking the visitor experience from the moment that people arrive at the museum: the signage they encounter, the bits of paper they pick up, all the way through to the way we deliver information in the galleries.”