It's as if the museum itself embodies time with its rich collection of our history.
Although one must rise up to try to see the full picture, if one can ever be seen.
The building is pleasing to the eye even from above. One can immediately observe a very unusual confluence of shapes. The first association that comes to mind is due to this shape:
It's unmistakable for anyone who has ever seen this object up close. And this intuitive guess is sealed with another observation that completes the picture.
There's only one object that looks like this. It's a mechanical metronome. (Metronome - from Greek "measure" and "I lead") This is also supported by another discovery - can you find what makes this to be a metronome even more likely?
But this metronome is not ticking. How do you know?
It is stoppered. You can see a wedge placed into the metronome on the map.
I wouldn't say this means stop the music right away or stop the time, but it certainly means stop measuring time. Something billions of people today do not do much.
This is not all. Look at the map and see what other objects and meanings can be found. Do marvel also at the fact that many layers may exist in a form as one object can be a part of something totally different. Parts also can 'interact' with each other to make meaning.
And it'd be logical that someone choosing to communicate this way would not let easy associations be the main message but a distractor of sort from a more serious, perhaps even sinister, message. But you've got to start somewhere.
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