Do we need to read the texts at exhibits?

Exhibitions have become a media, produced by professionals (museographers or exhibit designers) in order to touch the public. Depending on the type of exhibit, there are various kinds of effects desired: esthetic, scientific, social, etc. The specific nature of a media exhibit is that it displays works or objects in a space, arranged and laid out in a pathway, so that they can be seen, understood, and appreciated by the public. Like other media, exhibitions combine several registers of mean..