Park Life: The Museum of Us and Balboa Park, San Diego, California, April 2026
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Visiting these unusual exhibits led me to contemplate how a museum could be devoted to almost any subject, and whether the Museum of Us is more than a curiosity. If so, it is a pleasant one, but is this enough? For a museum to come close to truly succeeding, it requires a guiding instinct so strong that the entire enterprise makes sense even in its disparate parts. The Museum of Us is, after all, examining humanity, and what is riskier than humans — a species that seems knowingly to seek its own destruction?
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