BACK IN 2008, the Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum began a $91 million restoration. During the construction, the curators and directors began to think about what it means to be a museum in the age of the Internet. So when they re-opened the museum—which was once Andrew Carnegie’s 91st Street mansion—in December 2014, visitors encountered something entirely new. Active participation at museums has continued to evolve in recent years. At the new Cooper Hewitt (seems they’ve dropped the hyphen), there is a space
An installation view of Immersion Room at the Cooper Hewitt Museum. M AY 2 0 1 5 7 9