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The Importance of Museum Seats
It is not always the case that you get to sit down in a gallery. What a museum provides its visitors to sit on tells us a great deal about how it imagines them. The Pinacoteca in Bologna has hyper-elegant, modernist sofas. Not to mention the corporate leather couches of Boston's Muse d'Orsay in Paris. These are all museums whose seating invites a slower mode of contemplation. To take our time - this is what museums are supposed to be for. Anyone who spent a day at Tate Modern will know that chances to sit in front of an artwork a few,. and what they do have is most unkind to
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