Museums should be places where you raise questions, not just show stuff.
Memory is knowledge; character is the box of values and habits in which our knowledge knocks around. People with a lot of knowledge thrown together in a box that encourages social intercourse and experimentation tend to come up with good ideas, which are the engine of change. Think of Silicon Valley in California, or Oxbridge in the United Kingdom.
You become visibly stressed because you are working hard to pay for a standard of living so robust that it overwhelms your capacity to consume it.