It's interesting to me how often in museums I visit (especially places with lots of hand-on exhibits) that there are "holes" in their exhibits or exhibit galleries.
By this, I mean that some part of an exhibit (or an entire exhibit piece) was sufficiently annoying, or problematic to keep repairing, and so was simply removed -- without providing any sort of replacement activity or substitute exhibit component.
This often leads to extremely confused visitors looking for tools or parts of an activity referred to in an exhibit label that are no longer physically there.
Believe me, I know from hard-won experience how difficult it can be to maintain a large set of interactive exhibits, but for the sake of your visitors please LEAVE NO HOLES!
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