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| - This museum really succeeded as a museum in ways that others often fail - fonts were legible, glare rarely if ever impeded your view of displays, information provided was neither too much nor too little. And the pacing of the museum overall - the 4 floors and the order they suggest you explore them in - was perfection. We really combed the place thoroughly, reading every word, and it took almost exactly 3 hours (which is a very reasonable amount of time to spend in a museum).
I really have to hand it to the educational team for the museum, on top of my general appreciation for the place (oh yeah, I really liked the architecture, too). They repeated just enough content that visitors could really learn from the museum, but not in a carbon-copy kind of way that leaves a visitor bored out of their minds. (Every time a duplicate tidbit was presented, it was either in a different exhibit with slightly different information, or in a different context in a nearby display).
I really appreciated the parts of the museum that dealt with the history of shoes, the different regional and cultural trends in shoes, and particularly the section on the Arctic footwear and accompanying clothing. It became very apparent to me that the women (because it seems to have been mostly women making many of the historical and traditional footwear on display) who made these were combining artistry and engineering and material science and design all into one high-functioning article of apparel.
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