If you wheeled pedals, or turned the capstan enough, the Exhibit title would start moving and lighting up, from your energy.
This dancefloor was also a video game: we were running from a red ball that would explode if it hit our feet, and hear a deep voiced announcer proclaim, "You’re out!"
The art studio had an artist on hand to work with drop in kids. Yesterday was clay. I asked her for crowd control tips, she suggested greeting families softly, so that they had to quiet down to hear you, and to play soothing music. She had on Spanish lullabyes; I suppose the suggestion in Mona Brooks Drawing with Children to avoid vocal music when making art means vocal music in your own language, the kids were not distracted by the CD. I felt really soothed myself, and what great light from three big windows!
Part VI