True. Although the more popular/populous museums tend to offer models you can interact with, whereas the smaller ones more often offer the real thing. If you'r

True. Although the more popular/populous museums tend to offer models you can interact with, whereas the smaller ones more often offer the real thing. If you're ever offered to visit the archives/warehouse of a museum, accept. Showing (large) stuff is expensive in space, so most exhibitions are only the tip of the ice berg of the enormous amount of stuff the museum has collected and stored. Often an exhibition is a mix of well-known artifacts that visitors expect to be there (and are therefore included, but are not very interesting as you already know them), some artifacts that are good specimens over-all to show (but not necessarily that interesting), and some truly interesting pieces (you probably never have seen before). I found that when you visit the archive/warehouse of a museum, curators tend to show artifacts from that last category in particular.