I cannot agree more with what you've just said.
I think it's this sense of giving an experience. And especially for history and civilization museums all over the country, we have the real stuff, the real old stuff that even sometimes you can physically access. You can touch it. I'm bringing forward all those aspects that we can find in most of the historic sites where you have interpreters who are actually re-enacting. This is not losing the gesture, and this is very important.
We usually deal with a long process to present a product to a visitor, and that product is there for a duration of time that has nothing to do with twitting or zapping. You are there to take a moment to stop, to look, and to reflect, and the reflection is we don't have any access to it as that of the visitor.
That's why our exhibition is called “History and Memory”. I don't know what history the visitor has learned before coming to the museum, but he'll be exposed to the history of the discovery of North America, Canada, right up to 1840. And objects are presented. He looks at the objects and finds out that during the 1837 Rebellion some of the political chiefs were Robert Nelson, and Brown, and they were not French Canadian. No, they were not French Canadian. They were patriots and they rebelled. And Papineau had correspondence with Mackenzie and so on.
Think about it, and then rethink and probably change what your memory transmitted to you. And this is giving access to that. I think that's a role a museum should play, giving access to different points of view. You have your own view. You go in, and my way of judging the success of my exhibition is that the visitor has more questions coming out of the exhibition than he had coming in. This is where the education comes into the portrait of museum business.