If anything, the private spaces of the Monterey Bay Aquarium are even more magical that the public ones. The exact same aesthetic sensibility that pervades the viewing galleries—clean, calm, scientifically sound, technologically advanced—also characterizes the service corridors, which is nice because it appeals to my sense of symmetry. But does it actually matter? Does it change the intended visitor experience? Does it make the enacting of the touristic ritual any more blameless?
At The Millions, Lindsay Hatton talks the Disneyfication of Monterey Bay and reminisces about her time working at the city’s aquarium, an institution responsible for much of the city’s recent transformation.
