quality and success in a museum

When an individual goes to visit a museum, they have a particular picture in their head that they think the museum will look like. They think about how it will be displayed and based on the advertisements for the museum, they try to think of what objects the museum will have in it. When I went to the Bodies exhibit, I had all of these things in mind any many more. I had never seen a dead body before so I was really curious if I was going to be able to get past that fact and do what I was there to do; learn.
I believe that the most successful thing about the Bodies Exhibit was how the bodies were displayed in such a fashion that you didn’t think about them being dead bodies, but rather, a learning tool for anatomy or physiology. There was no flow or real structure to the museum so people could wander at their leisure. Each exhibit had enough space around it for many people to see the item at the same time. The thing that surprised me the most was that the designer took time to think about where to place the more powerful exhibit, such as the fetal development display. That way, parents could decide if they wanted their children or even themselves to see the display.
The advertisements for the museum are also what made it successful. If the viewer is going into a museum based on the advertisements, and if the viewer does not see what they expect, it may impact how they feel about the museum. The Bodies Exhibit truly advertised what objects they had while still leaving an element of surprise so that not everything was given away and would still encourage the viewer to go to the museum, rather than just look at a book of pictures.