How to experience a museum like an artist

An interview with multimedia journalist and author Emma Jacobs

Last weekend, I visited the Musée des Arts et Métiers, a historical science and invention museum. What I thought was initially a rainy day kid activity turned into a fascinating research opportunity. I’ve been wanting to pitch a New Yorker cover rendering the inner workings of city life like it’s in the inside of a clock but I haven’t yet nailed the int…