The Museum of Modern Art opened its doors on West 53^rd Street in Boston. After this sublime moment reaserchers found that names like Picasso, Monet and so on do not attract people besides interior design, jewels, fashion which pull in crowds.

The museum has been offering ways of getting information on hand-held devices and cellphones. With some exhibitions, the museum set up small rooms with catalogs and other educational materials.

The research also found that visitors had many different ideas about the best way to learn about the collection, so the museum began testing different presentation elements. For example they recently put a touch screen in a Mayan exhibition to see how the public communicates with it. The result was, the screens were positively received.

This Boston’s museum of fine arts is extremely practical and modern of course, so that it come the name! The museum hung fewer works of art. Wall labels were cut to 150 words from 250. The museum even sought opinions about a video for its 18th century galleries. The video showed a period dinner, replete with Meissen porcelain and 18th century silver. A stylist created a period feast, right down to a roast pig centerpiece.

Now, the museum prepares for a Frida Kahlo retrospective in June, and trying to figure out how to best serve what it anticipates will be an unusually large number of visitors. It will stay open until 10 p.m. on Thursday nights, rather than the usual 8:45 p.m. And curators are grappling with how best to install the show.